A Grimdark Fantasy of Blood, Ruin, and Unforgiven Magic
SOME VOWS ARE FORGED IN FIRE. OTHERS ARE SEALED IN BONE AND ASH.
Twenty cycles ago, Master Smith Jon Thorne paid a devastating toll. Under the glare of a Blue Harvest Moon, a desperate ritual tore a hole through reality—claiming his wife and shattering his body. Armed only with a gnarled walking stick and the final, agonized command of the woman he loved, Jon fled the copper-scented fog of Aetherfell Grimoirehold to hide his infant daughter, Ysana, from the dark paths.
In the deep silence of the woods, he built a quiet life. He hammered iron, kept his head down, and buried the past. But magic in this world exacts a terrible price, and the dark paths never forget those who walk them.
When Ysana awakens a reality-warping relic known as the Wyrdglass, its pulse draws a shadow-bound wanderer and the suffocating scent of ozone and blood. Jon's long-buried secrets are violently unearthed, the old wards collapse, and the horrors of the Twilight World find them at last—led by a necro-luminous queen who wears a terrifyingly familiar face.
To save his daughter, the broken Smith must lead her back into the nightmare he sacrificed everything to escape.
THE TOLL IS BEING COUNTED. THE GATE IS OPEN.
FATE IS NOT A CHOICE. IT IS A SENTENCE.
