Magdalena
Berglund
Where color is crime
and love is rebellion
The Echoes Between Worlds
New Adult fantasy duology
When a forgotten canvas pulls her into a world where art is outlawed, Dahlia Abbott must choose between finding her way home or fighting to free a kingdom.
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The story:
A single painting transports her into a realm that silences artists and forbids them from creating. Alone and trapped, she’s taken in by a secret rebellion of painters, poets, and dreamers called 'the Echoes', who refuse to be erased. As her stay deepens, she trains beside them, uncovers secrets about this strange new world, and learns how to survive in a society where truth itself is treason.
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Tropes:
portal fantasy with a twist, found family, rebellion against tyranny, slow burn romance, hidden magic woven through creativity, a mother-daughter mystery at the heart of it all, enemies who fear beauty as power​
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Trigger warnings:
depictions of grief and loss, death and murder, panic attacks and anxiety, gaslighting
ECHOES BETWEEN WORLDS HAVE
FOUND FAMILY
YEARNING
family legacy
rebellion
betrayals
Hues of Rebellion
Echoes between Worlds, book 1
She poured her soul into a painting and tore open a world she never knew existed.
At Vassler’s Art Academy, Dahlia Abbott keeps her head down and her imagination alive, clinging to the fading memory of a mother who vanished without a trace. But when one defiant painting opens a door to a world where art is outlawed and creators vanish, Dahlia is pulled into a struggle far beyond anything she’s known.
There, she is found by the Echoes. As she finds her place among them, Dahlia realizes that hiding has never kept anyone safe. To honor what she believes in, and who she truly is, she’ll have to risk everything to help a world afraid of its own imagination.
Will she remain the girl who hides behind the canvas, or become the artist this world has been waiting for?