Waves carry flecks of golden light, and the sands glow softly beneath your feet.

This AI-generated artwork captures the opening moments of The Luminous Isles — the shoreline beneath an endless sunrise, where the air carries salt and wild blossoms, and the coast stretches until land and sky become one.

It was created from the first passage of The Luminous Isles: Secrets of the Eternal Dawn, one of the bedtime stories published here. If the image draws you in, the story continues past the shore — inland to peaks crowned with bioluminescent gardens, and below the water to the Heart of Light.