The Open Spiral

A Sapphic Romantasy

Aureliane Whitlocke is crowned into a bond she does not fully understand.

As queen, she is bound to a living Crown that entwines ruler and land, a ritual meant to ensure continuity and stability. The process is ancient, carefully regulated, and irreversible. Queens are expected to endure it quietly.

Seren Ashcombe has spent her life documenting what follows.

As Royal Archivist, Seren records the slow erosion of those who come before Aureliane. Her role is observational, precise, and deliberately detached. But when the Crown’s influence begins to take hold of Aureliane faster than expected, Seren notices inconsistencies in the records. Subtle alterations. Gaps where certainty should be.

As Aureliane struggles to maintain a sense of self within a body increasingly shaped by the Crown, Seren is drawn closer, not through rebellion or grand gestures, but through sustained presence, shared attention, and care expressed in small, deliberate acts.

Together, they begin to question a system built on endurance rather than consent, and whether continuity must always come at the cost of those who uphold it.

The Open Spiral is a quiet, slow-burn sapphic romance about intimacy formed through proximity, emotional restraint, and the choice to remain. It is a story of devotion without spectacle, and love that develops not through defiance, but through staying.

* This book contains depictions of non-consensual magical binding, explored critically and from a survivor’s perspective.