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Katey Rae
Author of The Arcane Odyssey
Katey Rae is a fantasy author crafting immersive worlds where ancient magic, forbidden knowledge, and deeply human choices collide. She is the architect of The Arcane Odyssey, an epic fantasy series beginning with The Awakening.
Her stories live in the space between wonder and danger — where every spell demands a price and every truth casts a shadow. When she isn't building realms from ink and starlight, she's plotting the next twist her readers won't see coming.
Currently publishing Book One and shaping the road ahead through the realms.
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The Awakening
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The Arcane Odyssey — Book 1
by Katey Rae
- Series
- The Arcane Odyssey
- Book number
- Book 1
- Genre
- Epic fantasy
- Release
- October 2026
- Publisher
- Obsidian Media Group
Synopsis
Zamaria Zephyr has lived her life surrounded by magic, but never meant to touch it.
Raised among enchanted texts in her family's quiet bookshop, Zamaria has always sensed that some books listen back, that certain symbols shift beneath her gaze, and that there may be more to her family's world than she has ever been told.
When an unexpected encounter awakens questions that can no longer be ignored, Zamaria finds herself drawn beyond the familiar shelves of home and into a world of old secrets, competing beliefs, and a magical history far more complicated than she imagined.
The deeper she ventures, the more she must question what she has been taught about magic—and what it might be asking of her. With every discovery bringing new questions, Zamaria must decide how far she is willing to go to understand the forces shaping her life.
The Awakening begins The Arcane Odyssey, an epic fantasy journey of magic, identity, discovery, and the choices that can reshape worlds.
The series
About The Arcane Odyssey
The series
An epic fantasy of awakening power, the hunger for forbidden knowledge, and the cost of becoming more than the world allows. The journey begins with The Awakening.
Book one
The Awakening begins the odyssey: a bookseller's daughter raised among enchanted texts discovers an ancient mark awakening on her hand, and a prophecy written in living light.
The world
Zephyr's Books & Curiosities, the town of Eldenbrook, the Crystal Caverns, two opposing magical traditions, the Star-Mark, and a world where magic was once a partnership rather than a weapon.
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Quick facts
- Author
- Katey Rae
- Series
- The Arcane Odyssey
- Featured title
- The Awakening
- Book
- Book One
- Genre
- Epic fantasy
- Publisher
- Obsidian Media Group
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The Arcane Odyssey: The Awakening
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- Creating The Arcane Odyssey
- Building immersive fantasy worlds
- The inspiration behind Zephyr's Books & Curiosities
- Magic, identity, choice and discovery in fantasy storytelling
- Developing characters and magical systems
- The journey from story concept to published novel
- Independent publishing and creative worldbuilding
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