This cover is out of fucks to give

Sometimes, you know, I like to be subtle about my ebook covers. Have and Hold, for instance, which probably doesn't seem like a sensible cover at all until you've already read it and /then/ realize that's folds of leather up there. Sometimes I like to be all poetic and stuff, as for example the Home Is cover, with a white camellia and a red one falling into a mountain pool together, which took seven layers of different images to do, not counting the words.

And then sometimes I just say "fuck it, the arc title is Lodestone, and the cover is going to be half red and half black with a north-south pointer in the middle, and Imma slap a marriage charm down as the fulcrum, just in case anyone missed how the central story is titled 'becoming the phoenix'. done".

At least I finally /have/ titles for this arc!