Of Kith and Kin

What if the person you mourned came back… in a body you don’t recognize?

When a stranger sits beside Tae-hee Kim on a bus and calls her dongsaeng, her world fractures. Her twin brother died decades ago. But the man beside her remembers everything.

What follows is not a miracle. It is a reckoning.

As Tae-hee struggles to reconcile grief with impossible truth, Kit -- the man who claims to be her brother -- finds refuge in KSH House, a quiet place where broken lives are gathered, restored, and, sometimes, remade. There, among found family and fragile trust, he begins to build something new: a life shaped by memory, identity, and a love he never expected.

But Kit is not only human.

Within him lives a threlphax, an ancient being of energy and memory, part of a hidden legacy that is beginning to surface. And as its presence grows, so does the danger surrounding everyone he has come to care for.

Of Kith and Kin is a deeply human speculative novel about what it means to be seen, to be chosen, and to belong, even after everything has changed.

For readers of:

• found family that feels like home
• slow-burn queer romance
• emotionally grounded speculative fiction
• stories where memory, identity, and love outlast the body

Some stories ask what we are.
This one asks who we become when someone chooses to stay.