They didn’t ask to be legends. They lit the match anyway.

The Cassidyverse is vast. It spans centuries, stars, and stories whispered in orbit, shouted from rooftops, or muttered into a whiskey glass at the end of the world. In The Shape of the Fire, Adam Gaffen returns to the sprawling, genre-bending universe that began with Into the Black and The Heart of Space — and he’s brought some of your favorite chaos agents with him.

What’s inside?

• A fencer with a crush and absolutely no chill.
• A dragon shifter flunking magic school — in orbit.
• A quiet rebellion in the most dangerous office in the system.
• Interviews, heists, heartbreaks, and karaoke.
• Hopepunk angels. Weaponized lawyers. Enhanced humans with too much baggage and too much time.
• And Kendra Cassidy herself — sometimes younger, sometimes war-worn, always blazing through history like she means it.

Some stories are funny. Some are sexy. Some hit like a sucker punch to the solar plexus. Whether it’s Kalili and Faith sparking divine mischief, Dakota Chase pulling off the impossible (again), or Tuesday Belden trying to remember how to trust, these tales explore what it means to belong — in a world that keeps rewriting the rules.

You’ll find:

• Sci-fi, fantasy, and things that sit gloriously between
• Found family forged in fire
• Romance, resistance, and real consequences
• Queer joy, grief, and righteous chaos
• The edges of canon, stretched but never snapped

This isn’t a collection for quiet heroes or tidy endings.

This is for the ones who burn bright, break things, and keep going anyway.

Because fire doesn’t ask permission. It makes its own shape.