Insert Britney Spears song title and renewed disclaimer: not a real cover or title reveal / commitment. Me abusing bestie @seldnei.bsky.social by co-opting her WIP for my ongoing experiments trying to learn environments and (cover) composition. Also: middling success tree bark.

Digital color illustration of a faux book cover. Three white, female-presenting figures stand facing each other in a wooded setting. The central figure (brown, braided hair) faces forward and the other two face in toward her. The other two (a young blonde white woman on left and black haired white girl on the right) have a ghostly glow and transparency to them. Faintly green magic comes from above and is split by a pink lens flare into blue and yellow strands by the central woman. The others pull at / braid the strands. The left of the image is cool tones with snow, ice, and dark clouds. The right is warm tones with spring beginning to bloom. Cover text reads “The Islington War” on top, “Laura E.Price” in the middle bottom, and “Misaligned: Book Two” along the bottom.