Celeste Simone

Celeste Simone creates speculative fiction that places personal loyalty inside carefully ordered imagined societies. Oriana’s Eyes begins the Great Oak Trilogy, published by iUniverse in 2010. Its central character, Oriana, is a pure-blood Winglet studying at Odon’s University, where contact with half-blood students is forbidden. Her growing bond with Dorian, who is both Winglet and Finlet, makes the institution’s hierarchy immediate rather than abstract. Apple Books classifies the novel as science fiction and fantasy, while independent edition records confirm its subtitle, publisher, and first position in the trilogy. Simone builds the story around surveillance, inherited status, and the risk involved in questioning rules that once seemed permanent. The university setting gives Oriana’s private choices wider consequences as she considers escape beyond the boundaries she has always known. For readers, Oriana’s Eyes provides a first-volume narrative concerned with identity, unequal power, and curiosity about a world deliberately kept out of sight.