The Immisceo Series — Shona Clingham

Immisceo

Power does not save you. It only changes what you can destroy.

HISTORY · CHARACTERS · MAP · BOOKS

The Immisceo Series explores power, grief, loyalty, and control through five intersecting forces:

a mother struggling not to become a weapon,

a man who chooses to stay without protection,

a protector trapped inside obedience,

a survivor who builds sanctuary through fear,

and a regime that mistakes control for peace.

Together, they ask what remains of a person when survival demands everything.

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History and Magic

With magic as the highest form of power, and those with magic in authority, non-magic humans rank generally low in society, but even within the vast community of witches there is discrimination. Witches of the world were all once gifted in magic of both the mind and of the elements. Their power came to be known as Immisceo magic, meaning mixed…

History remembers outcomes. Not the cost of becoming.

Characters

Luciana

Some lives are shaped by what others fear. Luciana’s is shaped by what she refuses to become — even as power and authority rewrite the limits of her survival.

Nathaniel

Nate has no magic, no illusions, and no safe exits — only the resolve to stay when leaving would be easier.

Garrett

Garrett chose order over conscience when survival demanded loyalty — and he lives every day inside the cost of that choice.

Amara

Before she understood power, Amara understood fear — and that she was the cause. The rest of her life would be shaped by what others believed she was meant to become.

THE DUCITI

Leaders of the Nosiran Covens

An order that confuses control with stability, the Duciti preserve peace through sanctioned cruelty — erasing lives, outlawing power, and calling it balance.

MORE ABOUT CHARACTERS

A wooden lay figure with strings attached to raised arms representing being controlled with a quote from Immisceo Taken by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: Her options were nothing more than illusions. There would be no running, she realised. Only dancing. And the Duciti were the ones pulling the strings. (From Chapter Two)

A semi cloudy night sky with a full moon and with a quote from Immisceo Taken by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: No matter how bleak and black her existence became, the familiar sight of the moon restored something within her, small as it was—like tiny fluttering wings of flame beating back the darkness. (From Chapter Seven)

A close up shot of a circular drain grate with a quote from Immisceo Taken by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: ‘Must we always argue?’ ‘Not at all,’ Nate said, his expression serene. ‘Just do it my way for once.’ Luciana’s nostrils flared as she glowered at him. ‘Fine. If you flaming well die, I’ll…’ ‘Build a statue in my honour?’ (From Chapter Twenty)

Dark blue background with blue and white lightning with a quote from Immisceo Taken by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: ‘We all know pain,’ Nate said. ‘It becomes a part of us… But it doesn't define us.’ (From Chapter Eighteen)

Purple and pink gradient sky with starlight with a quote from Immisceo Taken by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: ‘You fail to acknowledge just how amazing you actually are. I would happily spend the rest of my days trying to make you see yourself the way I do.’ (From Chapter Eighteen)

Sweeping sky scape with sunrise colours with a quote from Immisceo Taken by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: It was more real than anything she’d ever imagined, and she clung to that in the same way that the sky clung to the earth. (From Chapter Nineteen)