Begin the dream. Cross the Veil.

One story sung through two worlds.

Twin souls, one promise—to defy the bounds of reality.

What if the love you lost was a bridge between worlds?

In this sweeping metaphysical fantasy, dreams and reality entwine, and the fate of two worlds hangs on the courage of twin souls. On Earth, Colleen Addison—haunted by grief and longing for the magic she once believed in—clings to the memory of her twin sister. Across the Partition, on the world of Ophia, Esperidi Mon-Sequana flees a regime that has weaponized wonder, guided only by forbidden dreams and the teachings of a vanished order.

As cataclysms shake both civilizations and awaken their hidden gifts, Colleen and Esperidi are drawn together by a bond that defies death and distance. Along the way, they gather a small band of misfits and believers—an unexpected found family whose shared soul-promise sets the first stones of a bridge between worlds. Their journey, woven through world-spanning journals, prophetic dreams, and the echoes of myth, becomes a quest to heal the rift between realities and rekindle humanity’s lost fire.

For readers who crave lush world-building, soul-deep emotion, and the alchemy of myth and memory, this novel is an unforgettable invitation to believe in the power of love, even when the Veils between worlds seem impenetrable.

Inside you’ll find:
• Twin souls / sister-souls whose love becomes a bridge between realities
• A portal between contemporary Earth and the world of Ophia
• Found family at the world’s thin places—misfits who choose each other in the ruins
• Grief, trauma, and chosen amnesia woven into a healing arc
• A metaphysical fantasy where magic is tuned by feeling, not formula

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“Ophia’s Sister-Soul (Parting the Veils) by Seth T. Mullins is a haunting and philosophically rich fantasy that traverses parallel realities, spiritual awakening, and the emotional landscape of loss. On the one side, we're with Colleen Addison, who is reeling from the death of her twin and haunted by visions of another world. On the other is Esperidi Mon-Sequana, a Dreamer in the world of Ophia, which is a place plagued by imbalance and scarred by forgotten trauma. As their narratives unfold in harmony, each woman embarks on a journey that is both internal and epic. The bond between them stretches across planes of existence, pulling them together through dreams, rituals, and grief-wrought insight.

With blood rites, fractured gods, and mythic resonance, Mullins delivers a fantasy that reads as both fable and elegy. 

Author Seth T. Mullins has a real skill for transporting people into the themes and emotions of his story, and that makes the novel as much about the soul as it is about the plot. I was struck by the way Colleen's and Esperidi’s narratives mirrored and informed each other, like dream and waking reality entwining together. 

The world-building is lush, textured, and full of symbolic weight, while the prose itself often borders on poetic. Rather than relying on typical fantasy tropes, Mullins elevates the genre with meditative themes about purpose, identity, and the cost of spiritual neglect. 

Overall, Ophia’s Sister-Soul is an intimate, myth-infused fantasy that invites deep reflection and offers something rare in taking grief and wonder hand in hand, and I'd certainly recommend it.”

***** Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite

Epic stakes. Found family.

From the Back Cover:

Colleen Addison fears that the messages she receives from a place called Ophia prove she’s losing her mind. And as she grieves for her lost twin sister, Earth’s civilizations, divorced from magic and wonder, crumble. 

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Partition, Esperidi Mon-Sequana discovers she’s the last surviving Sophryne, a Wakeful Dreamer cast adrift as Ophia convulses beneath the weight of atrocities done to Her, spilling Her anguish in fire and floods. 

With naught but dreams and waking omens to guide her, Esperidi ventures across a ravaged land where marauders are a law unto themselves, and the Shetain priesthood demands that Ophia’s children appease the Rupture with penance and blood. 

Lost and bereaved, Colleen and Esperidi reach for hope and salvation beyond the camouflage Veils, unsuspecting of the ties that bind them across lifetimes and worlds…

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From the Author

Throughout my life's myriad twists and turns, one desire has always stayed strong in me: to write epic tales that illuminate the inner world of our souls. I write fiction that depicts the journey of self-discovery in a dramatic and emotionally cathartic way. I'm inspired by methods of inner exploration like dream-work and shamanism, wherein one takes an inward plunge and then shares the fruits of that deep descent with the wider community. That, to me, is the essence of what any art form is really about. 

I think the artistic impulse takes it for granted that the universe is forever unfinished; we all have unique gifts that bring something to Creation that would not otherwise ever exist. 

My inspirations/influences include writers like Jane Roberts, L. Frank Baum, Stephen R. Donaldson, Frank Herbert, Lewis Carroll, Jack Kerouac, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Robert E. Howard. Though I've enjoyed writing in many genres and styles, speculative fiction remains my biggest passion.

Forging Spiritual Community

Much of the Parting the Veils series revolves around ideas of partnership and spiritual community. Every player in the drama contributes to unraveling the core dilemmas, and none of them can accomplish this alone. This is an epic fantasy wherein the central conflict is resolved without recourse to the usual means of violence, force, manipulation, or outwitting the enemy.
My protagonists don't possess abilities that lie beyond the reach of any of us. They're neither warriors nor savants. They're heroes of the heart.
As Esperidi makes her way through a ravaged land, she touches the hearts and souls of those with whom she comes into contact. Her very presence allows light to gain a foothold in a land where darkness has been prevalent. The story examines and aims to contradict various beliefs that are prevalent in our culture, one of the biggest being the idea that love is impotent in the face of violence and aggression.
I aim to dramatize the power of love, human potential, and trusting our inner guidance. I’m reaching for a vital living myth that refutes cultural beliefs that create a lot of collective suffering and limitation, particularly those that leave us feeling estranged from ourselves, lost, believing we need outer authorities to find our bearings.

Metaphysical themes & tropes in Ophia’s Sister-Soul / Parting the Veils

• Divinity immanent in all life
  Sacred presence in nature, matter, and the individual, instead of a distant external god.

• Shared dreams and dream communication
  Souls meeting, planning, and conspiring across worlds through shared dream environments.

• Experiencing and Trusting the Unseen Source

• Dream omens and symbolic guidance
  Reading dreams, symbols, and synchronicities (like the sparrow) as navigational aids in life decisions.

• The Misfit as Seeker and Visionary

• Dreams as blueprints of reality
  Dreams revealing the “inner garden” where future events and life paths are seeded.

• Spiritual crisis and “the Rupture”
  Colleen’s breakdown between worlds of enchantment and “rational” society, framed as spiritual crisis / shamanic initiation.

• Channeling and spirit guides
  Sanyori narrating from a nonphysical vantage; guidance moving through Colleen’s hand and consciousness.

• Teachers, mystics, and inner oracles
  Shiya-coqui, Sophrynes, and inner voices inviting direct relationship to wisdom (as opposed to dogma.).

• Sentient Library / subtle inner spaces
  Psychic or dream-built spaces that hold shared knowledge and spiritual intention.

• Spiritual ethics and collective evolution

• Nonviolent resolution and the power of love
  Epic conflict resolved through love, belief, and inner transformation rather than force.

• Authoritarian religion and fanaticism
  A god-figure (Toh) and hierarchy that twist idealism into tyranny; exploration of fanaticism’s spiritual roots.

• Healing our estangement from nature
  Restoring felt oneness with the living world as a spiritual and planetary necessity.

Psychological and mystical crossovers

• Madness vs mysticism
  Colleen’s visions pathologized as illness by psychiatry while also revealed as genuine spiritual perception.

• Identity beyond the ego
  Exploration of multiple layers of self: waking personality, soul, dream-self, and their dialogue.

• Hope as metaphysical force
  Dreams, symbols, and inner images that insist on possibility even in apparent collapse.