A Novel by Felicity Van Rysbergen
Some great love stories survive death.
This one survived six hundred years of it.
The walls. The stones. The fucking stars. Everything remembers except her. — Anamnesis, Book One
The Anamnesis Trilogy · Book One
In a world where children are sacrificed to maintain seals that hold reality together, a Ward-born girl with a forbidden bond discovers she may be the key to breaking the cycle — or the reason it exists.
A story about power that costs everything, love that remembers across lifetimes, and the terrifying question of what happens when you discover the script you've been performing was written in your own hand.
"I write about the things we bury. The memories that survive in the body when the mind tries to forget. The love that persists through cycles it shouldn't be able to remember."
Melbourne-based writer with a PhD in English and Cultural Studies, I've spent years studying how stories lodge in us — how narrative rewires the way we think about power, memory, identity, and what we're willing to burn for.
The Anamnesis Trilogy is my debut — a dark romantasy that asks what happens when you discover you've been living the same life for six hundred years, and the system keeping you asleep was built with your own hands. It's Nietzsche in a corset. It's philosophy with teeth.
When I'm not writing, I'm reading too many books at once, arguing about whether Heraclitus was an optimist, and reminding my coffee that it's supposed to be hot.
Melbourne, Australia ✦ Represented by [Agent Placeholder]
He looked at me like I was both a war and the reason he survived one. — Anamnesis, Book One
On the night I realised my protagonist had been repeating the same story for six hundred years, and why that changed everything about how I write consequences.
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