War demands order. The universe demands perfection. Humanity survives by neither.
Occupied Yugoslavia, 1944.
Captain Harold Fitzwilliam has spent enough of the war dealing with impossible orders. Nora Thorne has spent enough of it proving that the impossible is usually just something nobody has measured properly yet.
Then they are sent into the mountains.
Villages have fallen silent. Trees grow in flawless lines. Soldiers emerge from the forest marching with unnatural precision, their memories and personalities stripped away.
Something is spreading through the peaks.
The partisans call it a curse. German forces are trying to control it. Fitzwilliam and Nora discover something far worse: an intelligence that does not hate humanity and does not want to conquer it.
It wants to correct it.
As the mountains begin reshaping everything they touch, Fitzwilliam and Nora must uncover the rules behind the phenomenon before both armies become part of the same perfect design.
Because the Nexus is not trying to kill them.
It is trying to improve them.
The Clean Blade is a dark WWII supernatural thriller blending military adventure, cosmic horror and occult mystery, and the opening novel in the Crown Occult Division series.
