A Dark Fantasy Trilogy
“ He was born with the blush of something dangerous. In the Kingdom of Evenhere, color was a plague. But Jethran Frye carried the only key to restoring what was taken. ”
The World
Evenhere was not always colorless. Once, people felt deeply — felt everything. Joy, grief, love, rage. The full spectrum of what it means to be alive. Then the ruling powers decided that emotion was dangerous. That feeling was weakness. And so they carved it out, piece by piece, until an entire kingdom learned to live without color, without warmth, without feeling anything at all.
Until Jethran was born.
His blush of pink was considered a flaw. A malfunction. He was hidden, corrected, suppressed. But the color in his skin was never a flaw. It was a memory — the ancient power to restore what was taken, locked behind the most radical thing of all: the ability to feel.
The Magic
In Evenhere, the spectrum was not taken all at once. It was extracted slowly, surgically, until only grey remained. Jethran's power is not a weapon — it is a reversal. And each color unlocks only through the most difficult emotional breakthroughs:
The final color — pink, the blush of his skin — requires the most terrifying breakthrough of all: the willingness to be fully seen, fully felt, without armor.
The Characters
The boy born with a dangerous blush of pink. Raised to hide what made him different, Jethran discovers that the very thing he was taught to suppress is the only power capable of restoring what was stolen from his world. He loses his hand to the cause — and learns that wholeness is not about what's missing.
Jethran's anchor in a world that teaches them both to feel nothing. Their love is not a distraction from the mission — it is the mission's reason. In a world that wants them small and silent, they choose each other fiercely, repeatedly, against every force that says feeling is weakness.
The Seven Songs — ancient mythological beings woven through the trilogy's mythology — serve as both guide and antagonist, their motives as layered as the colors they guard.
Why It Matters
Jethran and Fable's relationship is not a subplot or a secondary arc — it is the emotional engine of the trilogy. Their love story unfolds with the same weight and complexity as the quest to restore the spectrum.
Jethran loses his hand partway through the trilogy. The story does not frame this as a loss to be overcome or hidden. He adapts, learns, continues. Disability representation that treats the character as whole — not despite the disability, but including it.
No swords. No military power. The magic in this world runs on the ability to feel fully, to confront pain, to forgive, to accept, to perceive clearly. The trilogy makes vulnerability the most powerful thing a person can do.
BookTok has transformed how readers discover dark fantasy. LGBTQ+ inclusive titles with emotional depth, disability representation, and queer protagonists are commanding dedicated communities, strong sell-through, and passionate advocacy. The Shards of Color trilogy was built for exactly this moment — with themes that cut, a magic system built on feeling, and a love story that earns its place at the center.
Three books. Three years of world-building. A protagonist who carries the weight of an entire kingdom's emotional suppression on skin that shouldn't exist. This is a trilogy that knows what it believes in — that vulnerability is not weakness, that feeling deeply is not a flaw, that the most radical act in a colorless world is to blush.
The books are written. The world is waiting.