Two-time Emmy™ Award winning writer Mike Palleschi’s debut novel “Falling into Shadow” is the first book of an epic sci fi fantasy trilogy. It follows multiple point-of-view characters as they navigate a land’s descent into war. With shades of Dune, and A Song of Ice and Fire, "Falling into Shadow" is a gripping tale of love, betrayal, and the fight for surrvival in a harsh and unforgiving world. A must for anyone who grew up on Star Wars but is looking for something a little more adult.A LAND GRAB. AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE. A WORLD THROWN INTO CHAOS.On the moon Novena, the drastic change of seasons force humanity to follow the thin band of livability as it moves up and down the globe.

As the north falls into shadow, citizens prepare to move south. Their enemies have other ideas.Sophie Song is a Stem Shifter—a person who can alter Space, Time, Energy, and Matter with their minds. When she discovered her country’s enemies seized their land, she thought things couldn’t get worse. She was wrong. When she discovered Stem Shifters she knew and loved had joined the enemy, she thought things couldn’t get worse. Wrong again.

Can Sophie and her dwindling group of allies lead her people to victory before their homes turn to ice?Battle lines are drawn. Family members fall on opposite sides. The young grow up fast. Betrayal, corruption, and duplicity run rampant. Some rise to become heroes, some succumb to a darkness that has lurked inside them all along.