Can Alaric forge his own fate—or will he become a slave to prophecy?
Alaric has always longed to leave the valley he calls home. But when a brutal massacre tears his quiet village apart, he discovers a forbidden power that marks him for death. Pursued by a cunning warlord determined to claim it as his own, Alaric’s only hope is Rainard Blackheart—a banished knight with a haunted past and a dangerous sense of honour.
Together, they journey across a realm unlike any other. Each winter, the sea rises to swallow the lowlands, stranding its people on scattered islands. With every eclipse, rifts open in the Veil between worlds, unleashing flesh-eating monsters into the dark. Meteors crash from the heavens, their precious stardust mined and forged into spellswords of terrible power. In this broken land, survival itself is a battle.
But Alaric’s greatest danger may walk beside him. The deeper they journey, the more he suspects Rainard is not what he claims. And in a world where life is cheap and steel is law, Alaric will learn that those who defy destiny must pay with blood and tears.
