The Sorrow of Airmed

By: Yoko Bongo

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Some wounds cannot be closed. Some legacies refuse to be buried.

In the eternal halls of the gods, healing is a matter of sterile, silver perfection—until Miach dares to prove otherwise. By growing a living, breathing arm for the wounded King Nuada, he demonstrates the forbidden power of organic magic. But their father, the great healer Dian Cecht, cannot abide a miracle he cannot control. In a sudden, brutal act of jealousy, he murders his own son as the divine court watches in silence.

Airmed, a goddess of healing, buries her brother alone. From his blood-soaked grave erupt 365 magical herbs—the complete codex of organic healing, containing every secret of the human body. But before she can preserve them, her father scatters the herbs to the mortal winds, intending to erase Miach’s legacy forever.

Exiled and stripped of everything but her grief, Airmed descends into the mortal wilds to hunt down the scattered herbs. She expects to face the journey alone, until she crosses paths with Caelan. He is a mortal herbalist who possesses a deep, practical knowledge of the land—and a quiet, burning grievance against the arrogance of divine healers. Unimpressed by her divinity but fiercely loyal to her cause, Caelan offers his blade, his skills, and a partnership that challenges everything Airmed thought she knew about the fragile, fleeting nature of mortals.

As they navigate corrupted forests of iron and treacherous Fae courts, the space between the grieving goddess and the pragmatic mortal narrows into a fierce, slow-burning romance. But Dian Cecht’s loyalists are hunting them, and Airmed soon realizes that merely rebuilding her brother's codex is not enough. To find true justice, she must weaponize her healing magic and forge an alchemy of wrath.

The Sorrow of Airmed is a dark, Celtic mythology-inspired romantasy about the cost of vengeance, the power of shared grief, and the undeniable strength of a love rooted in mortal earth.