About this ebook
Long-listed for the 2016 Exeter Novel Prize
Winner of the Book Designer January 2019 E-book Cover Design Award
Two planets with a shared destiny.
Four communities bound in disability.
Two blind teens trying to love each other.
On the remote planet of Eloia, Dex and Leanora live in two worlds that intersect: the world of seeing and the world of the blind. Leanora alone travels between them. But she keeps her limited eyesight a secret from the boy she loves most in the world. When she catches her father blinding babies she must make a decision that will jeopardize her life.
The two teens are forced to trek across Eloia in search of answers, while struggling to survive in the harsh wilderness. Leanora’s mother, believed to be dead, has left traces of herself in every community they meet. In the deserts of Hagoth they encounter a deaf community which was also affected by the Mists that had blinded most of Leanora and Dex’s relatives.
Each step of their journey takes Dex further away from Leanora and closer to someone new. Caught between her allegiance to their shared history and following her heart, Leanora must decide: is survival more important than love?
Eloia Born is the first in a two book series.
