Lithina (Songs of Estana Book 1)
- Cameron Crafton
- Fiction
- Epic, Fantasy, Adventure
- May 2026
Callen Rusk has spent his life outside the walls of Lithina.
Born with the Black Mark, a cursed brand passed down through generations, Callen belongs to the Disens, the lowest class in the kingdom. He is forbidden from most of the city, forced to survive on scraps, and taught that the safest thing a marked man can do is keep his head down.
Princess Elowin Johito has spent her life inside those same walls.
Beloved by the kingdom and raised to represent everything Lithina claims to be, Elowin has always known the Disens suffer. But knowing cruelty exists is not the same as watching it unfold in front of her. After she sees Callen humiliated in the streets, the kingdom she loves becomes impossible to see the same way again.
As Callen searches for a way to protect his family, and Elowin begins questioning the history she was raised to defend, both are drawn into a dangerous web of royal politics, forbidden truth, brutal law, and enemies willing to destroy anyone who gets too close.
Lithina does not forgive defiance.
And when a Disen boy and a princess begin pulling at the same buried secret, the first cracks in the kingdom may be impossible to hide.
Lithina is the first book in Songs of Estana, a dark epic fantasy series of court politics, rebellion, inherited curses, buried history, forbidden love, war, magic, and dangerous hope.
My name is Cameron Crafton. I am an author originally from Louisville, Kentucky, and I currently live in Georgia with my wife, Martha, and our son, Louie. I write adult dark and epic fantasy focused on morally complex characters, political conflict, inherited injustice, and the ways powerful institutions disguise cruelty as order. Lithina is the first novel in my Songs of Estana series.