After a hundred years of watching humans make bad decisions, anyone would be sick of their job as peacekeeper.
Reihan is no exception. Created to deal with humans who lose control over their manifestation abilities, she is more than ready for a vacation.
Worse still, virtually all humans in the Travelling City can manifest. That is, they can shape reality according to every whim of their imagination. Keeping the peace among them would be more than enough to keep Reihan busy, but people like Phillippe manage to make things worse still, both for himself and for everyone around him.
To improve his social standing, Phillippe drenched himself in the city’s collective subconscious and strengthened his inborn manifestation powers. Even though he shouldn’t be, he seems fine, crowned as the new star escort in the Brothel of Transformative Curiosities.
Reihan has seen this story play out before. But Phillippe is far too charming, far too kind, and far too inconsolable for her to simply look away.
The Travelling City is a dark fantasy mystery packed with romance and even more existential dread; set in a whimsical, bizarre and ever-changing world. You'll love the Travelling City if you're looking for:
Character-driven fantasy books
A queer approach to gender
Dark themes
A painfully beautiful world
A Grumpy and Sunshine romance dynamic
A magic system that reflects the characters' psychology
Ambiguous but ultimately lovable characters
Moral and existential philosophy
Epic Indie review: "Wielding a psychedelic array of bizarre imagery and space-distorting magic, The Travelling City boasts a truly fantastical setting for readers to dive in to. In a world where humans can manifest new realities for themselves, Adrienne Miller tests the limits of how weird and unfamiliar she can make her debut world, and it’s in this uniqueness that the book finds its shine [...] the indie space is blessed to have another author trying new things."
The Travelling City has had 3,163 lifetime orders (including promotions), 23,398 page reads, and it has reached several of the Top Ten Amazon Rankings for various Fantasy categories.
The Travelling City was a closely monitored paradise of euphoria. A place where every thought could be turned into reality, and every new reality spread like the most seductive sickness. Much of the city’s history had been washed over by ever-renewing fantasies of what life could be like. And most of its inhabitants did not care which version they lived in as long as life continued in a way that suited them.
Growing up in the Travelling City was dangerous, and its inhabitants did not value children. Every new person posed the risk of tipping over the precarious balance the colony had carved out, where humans could use their manifestation abilities to cause life-ending catastrophes. Often unattended and wild amidst the chaos of everyday life, many children fell to their deaths, tumbling over the cliff edges of the Travelling City’s rock face and descending deep into the cloud sea. Some turned each other to stone and could not turn back in time. Some disappeared, wandering the lightless streets at night, never to be found again.
Most parents knew and accepted this. It was the way things had always been. But some were eaten up by grief and begged the dead gods and the universe to return their children for a second chance. The most reckless and desperate amongst them created manifested copies of their lost offspring, their longing and love shaping reality until it gave them what they thought they wanted. Those false children, first celebrated and coddled upon their arrival, inevitably failed to live up to their parents’ memories. Soon, they became unwanted shadows haunting the Travelling City’s streets, feral and confused, banded together like dogs to survive. They stole and killed and could not understand why their bodies turned this way or that as their parents’ impression of them changed.
