Rosamund Lyre
Love stories sung across the dark.
The Undersong · Book One
Sung Across the Dark
In the Meridian, every child is told who they are on the day they are born: a mark pressed into the wrist, a word written in a ledger, a voice assigned to a register it may never fit.
Lark’s never fit.
On the Long Night, when the staves sing loud enough for anyone, she slips her chaperone at a salt-flat port and climbs into a crate bound for the one starship that refused the empire. Aboard the Refrain, a gilded pleasure liner freed in a mutiny sixty years ago, she learns to sing in her own key, and learns what it is to be asked, every time, what she wants.
But a ship that will take in anyone has taken in a hunter too. And the man who will have to learn that letting go is the most loving thing he can do is the one who came to take her away.
A story of names, and the courage to answer to your own.
Coming June 2027
Three Ways Aboard
The Undersong
The mainline
A sanctuary starship, a polycule the empire calls a crime, and magic that only works while everyone keeps choosing it. Four books from a stowaway to the fall of an empire, by consent, not conquest.
Lanternfall
The cozy line
Standalone novellas in a harbor town of stairs and lanterns, where the ship comes home every season. Small stakes, good bread, bad storms, and closed-door romance that starts at a festival and ends with a lantern on the seawall.
Solenne Noir
The dark line
The empire’s gilded heart and the ruins it leaves behind: courtesans, captives, syndicates, and ghost ships. Villains with room to be truly terrible, the highest heat in the series, and love in places built to forbid it.
Keep a Light On · Letters from the Refrain
Come Aboard
Hesper writes to the crew once a month: news from the ship, a little gossip, and every new book before it sails anywhere else.
New crew get A Light in the Window, free: the winter the Refrain first came to Lanternfall, a suspicious new security chief, and the woman who kept a lamp burning for whoever was still out there.
The sign-up opens soon. Until then, write to [email protected] to be told the moment it does.
About Rosamund
Rosamund Lyre writes romantasy for readers who want their spaceships gilded, their magic sung, and their love stories to ask first. She fell hard for starships and spellbooks early, and for every story where a misfit finds a crew, and she never quite came home from either.
She’s queer, trans, and polyamorous, so the found families in her books are drawn from life, and so are the cabin schedules. She lives in Southern California with a shelf of board games long enough to need its own rules, and she will sing karaoke at the slightest provocation; she considers a well-chosen power ballad a form of courtship.
Sung Across the Dark is her first novel. Tell her what name you’d sail under.