Current titles in the Ages of Claya fiction series:
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ANAMNESIS - Ages of Claya Book 1
A desperate search for survival—and answers As survivors in a ruined city, there are some realities we can’t escape. Or forget. Like the truth that our bodies don’t work anymore. We all know it—with every aching breath, we know it. Or the fact that few of us can recall our own names, let alone the name of our city, our land, or our people. The lack of answers rules our weary minds, flooding—like the fears in our hearts and the pains that crawl along our dying bodies. And the answers lie buried in the ruins that crumble all around us. The term anamnesis relates to both modern psychology and ancient Greek philosophy. In short, it refers to the concept that truths and realities learned in this life are not actually learned, but remembered from a previous life or existence. |
EMENDATUS - Ages of Claya Book 2
When the world seems broken…there are those who rise to mend it.
Over two hundred years ago, the survivors of Tekéhldeth escaped their birthplace and the terror that haunted them there. Now their descendants flood the lands of Glesia from the western shores to the inland sea.
But their world remains flawed. Incomplete.
It’s incomplete for the voránjevin clan that aches for vengeance, and for the human refugees who struggle at the edge of war. It’s incomplete for the boy born with the curse of black eyes and the girl found abandoned by the sea. The world is still broken—scarred by flaws that even the angelic immortals will struggle hopelessly to mend.
The term emendatus comes from Latin, and is a form of the verb "to amend". I typically translate it as "amended".
When the world seems broken…there are those who rise to mend it.
Over two hundred years ago, the survivors of Tekéhldeth escaped their birthplace and the terror that haunted them there. Now their descendants flood the lands of Glesia from the western shores to the inland sea.
But their world remains flawed. Incomplete.
It’s incomplete for the voránjevin clan that aches for vengeance, and for the human refugees who struggle at the edge of war. It’s incomplete for the boy born with the curse of black eyes and the girl found abandoned by the sea. The world is still broken—scarred by flaws that even the angelic immortals will struggle hopelessly to mend.
The term emendatus comes from Latin, and is a form of the verb "to amend". I typically translate it as "amended".
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AHEBBAN - Ages of Claya Book 3 When life’s winds threaten to choke the hope from our hearts, we can let it destroy us—or learn to rise above it all. In generations past, godlike immortals brought peace and stability to the flawed and broken world of Claya. Now, more than one hundred and fifty years later, few remember their glory. But the age of the immortals has yet to end. When one of them appears at last, the destruction left in his wake is unlike any the nations of Claya have known—ruin that mirrors the grief carried in the hearts of the people. And who can possibly stop the gods but the gods themselves? A new dawn is rising—a storm that will alter the world for all generations to come. The term ahebban comes from Old English, and means "to elevate, to lift, to exalt' etc. |
Where Time Cannot Tread
A perfect world. . .with a hidden flaw.
Ithëa’s heard so many tales, of the way the world was before the Great Transformation—before the mountain peaks were carved of gold and the deserts turned to silvery seas. Before the elements heeded the voices of all people. Before death was overcome, allowing all souls to live in harmony together—with or without their bodies. Eni’erei, the New World, is different from is former self in every possibly. It’s incomparably better.
But it isn’t complete. And the missing pieces await just beyond the limits of time itself.
An epilogue tale to the Ages of Claya triology .
A perfect world. . .with a hidden flaw.
Ithëa’s heard so many tales, of the way the world was before the Great Transformation—before the mountain peaks were carved of gold and the deserts turned to silvery seas. Before the elements heeded the voices of all people. Before death was overcome, allowing all souls to live in harmony together—with or without their bodies. Eni’erei, the New World, is different from is former self in every possibly. It’s incomparably better.
But it isn’t complete. And the missing pieces await just beyond the limits of time itself.
An epilogue tale to the Ages of Claya triology .
Whitney H. Murphy is a married mother of three from rural Minnesota. Aside from the original Ages of Claya fiction trilogy and Where Time Cannot Tread, she is also the author and illustrator of the Ages of Claya graphic novel series, which launched in November of 2025. Her first voyage into the world of illustration was with Our Father’s Plan, an illustrated Christian book for children.
Since she was about eight years old, Whitney has enjoyed vivid dreams of the lands of Claya and Eni’erei, from the ancient halls of Clevyan in the east to the floating crystal cities of the far west. Now, she hopes to share a bit more of the joy that world has brought her—one hand-illustrated page at a time.
Thank you for your interest in my work!
Whitney H. Murphy (Lorëu)
