Muiren and Celosia Weather The Storm

Celosia receives the news at age thirty-four that she has become afflicted by the Dark: a mysterious malady caused by a lack of love, in any of its forms, in its subject's life. It is a malady with a staggeringly high rate of mortality once it has festered enough; it is not long before her possible death consumes her thoughts. Meanwhile, a succession of life-altering events facilitates twenty-seven-year-old Muiren moving back into their parents' home for the first time since they reached adultho