@witchfynder_finder I hesitate to recommended it because it is dark and the second and third books need a CW for various kinds of trauma. But the Dragonoak trilogy plays a lot of things straight (well, except basically everyone's queer and mostly ladies) and it treats the traumas thing very beautifully. If that makes sense. And there's a happy ending. But… a lot of not happy things happen along the way, so not for everyone.