She didn’t choose her power.

It chose to rewrite her. Jessica Hart has always wanted one thing—to belong.

To feel safe.

To remain the person she has always been. But when visions of the future begin bleeding into her paintings, reality starts to crack.
 

At Collinson Academy, where dangerous abilities are studied and controlled, Jessica discovers a truth no one survives unchanged: Her power is not simply a gift.

It is a transformation. And transformation demands a price.
 

In a world divided by Light and Darkness, Jessica carries both—an impossible anomaly that should not exist. Her paintings change without her touch. Her visions grow more dangerous. And somewhere within her forgotten past lies a connection to a force Lumora has every reason to fear. As Jessica is drawn into a hidden conflict of prophecy, control, and manipulation, every revelation raises the stakes, and every choice pulls her further from the person she used to be.
 

If she resists what she is becoming, she may never learn to control it.

If she accepts it without uncovering the truth, she may lose far more than her former self. And the future is no longer waiting to be seen.

It’s already watching.
 

Welcome to Lumora—where Light is not what you think, and Darkness is not what it seems. Painting the Future is Book 1 of The Lumora Chronicles, a dark fantasy thriller for readers drawn to the secretive institutions, morally complicated characters, and dangerous magic of The Atlas Six and Ninth House.

A story about identity, transformation, and the moment you realize you were never meant to remain the same.