Nolelus
Book One
Nolelus: The Rising
A painter. Five friends on the stairs. One night that decides everything.
Thane Xavier
His Work
Thane Xavier writes dark fantasy for young readers — work that takes the interior lives of teenagers and children as seriously as any literary novelist would take the interior life of an adult.
He is the author of Nolelus, the YA dark fantasy series that opens with The Rising, and of The Adventures of Ashanti & Skully, a middle-grade dark adventure series that opens with The Borderline.
Thane’s work refuses to protect young readers from the shape of grief or the real cost of change. It trusts them to sit with the weight and come out of it more themselves, not less.
A painter. Five friends on the stairs. One night that decides everything.
Ashanti follows a path she shouldn’t have found. Past the skulls, past the treeline, past where the map stops.