The Bloodweaver
A divisive magic. A shattered family. A brewing war.
In a world where some can manipulate life with a single touch, siblings fight on rival sides, forced to reckon with the choices that led them there.
Three generations ago, ancient and mysterious beings introduced the world to the arcane art of Bloodweaving, which allows its practitioners to manipulate life with merely a touch. Now, Bloodweavers must hide in plain sight or risk being hunted by violent regime soldiers known as Breakers, who will stop at nothing to eradicate weaving once and for all.
Though his family’s vineyard has flourished thanks to Bloodweaving, Kerick DeLuvena has kept his powers a secret from everyone, including his beloved fellow triplets, Mel and Emiel. When a squad of Breakers arrives on the day of Emiel’s wedding, Kerick weaves himself a new face and flees to protect his family, setting out in search of the Ravel, a secret society of Bloodweavers who stand on the precipice of an uprising.
Meanwhile, Mel’s girlfriend is identified as a Bloodweaver and arrested. Devastated by so much loss, Mel hatches a plan to get captured in the same raid, hoping to protect her love at all costs, even if it means allying herself with the Breakers’ ruthless commander and serving the very force that tore her family apart.
As the consequences of the siblings’ diverging paths ripple across a divided and hostile world, both must eventually face the same question: Is Bloodweaving a miracle―or a curse?
The gripping debut of the Weaver Saga is perfect for fans of The Fifth Night and Jade City.
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C. N. Kuster
C. N. Kuster writes fantasy with a poet’s ear and a teacher’s eye for human complexity. Her debut novel, The Bloodweaver (Podium Publishing, 2026), opens The Weaver Saga, a trilogy that explores power, sacrifice, and the fragile threads that bind family together. At the heart of her stories are characters caught between love and survival, where magic is not a gift to be celebrated but a force that reshapes destiny at a terrible cost.
Based in Denver, Colorado, Kuster balances her life between the classroom and the page. She teaches high school language arts, and the rhythm of her days with students often informs the way she approaches storytelling with empathy, tension, and an awareness of how choices echo far beyond the moment they are made. A former Fulbright Scholar, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Regis University and an MA in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Colorado Boulder.
The Weaver Saga
Three generations ago, mysterious beings gifted humanity the power of Bloodweaving, the ability to manipulate life with a single touch. What began as wonder has become peril, for every Bloodweaver now lives under the shadow of the Breakers, a brutal regime determined to erase their kind.
In this fractured world, the DeLuvena triplets find themselves torn apart by the very magic that binds them. Kerick conceals his abilities until the day a Breaker raid shatters his family, forcing him into exile and toward the hidden society of Weavers known as the Ravel. His sister Mel, reeling from the arrest of her lover, chooses the unthinkable path of infiltration, pledging herself to the Breakers’ ruthless commander in hopes of protecting the person she cannot abandon. Emiel, caught between the weight of duty and the unraveling of everything he knows, becomes the silent axis on which the siblings’ destinies turn.
