The Raen Empire runs on circuits and firepower. The Southern Nations run on blood magic and centuries of ritual. Oun has been locked in a stalemate so complete it’s started to feel permanent—like this is just how the world works now.
Captain Alixandria Thorne believes in the Raen side. She’s built a career on that belief, on the conviction that technology and order are the only things keeping civilization from collapsing into chaos. Then she gets reassigned to a black site project. They call it a Void: a human being weaponized into something that can erase reality itself. Her name is Kael. She has no memories because the Empire burned them out. She barely registers as a person anymore—just a function in a uniform.
Except she does register. She starts to. The more time Alix spends with her, the more Kael becomes real in a way that shouldn’t be possible given what they’ve done to her. The bond forms quietly at first, then it consumes everything. Alix watches her own certainties crumble. The cause she’d devoted her life to suddenly looks like propaganda. The enemy looks human.
Then something older wakes up. Something that both the Empire and the Southern Nations have forgotten how to fight. It’s coming for the continent, and neither side has the weapons to stop it—not the guns, not the spells, not Kael’s void powers. Alix and Kael have to choose between loyalty and survival. Between the forces that created them and the alliance that might actually work. They have to defect into a war they never signed up for, with people they were trained to hate.
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| ISBN: 9781635552942 |
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| Genre: Speculative Fiction |
| Subject(s): Fiction |
| Publication Date: 2019-03-12 |
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| Publisher: Bold Strokes Books |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 314 |
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| Book_ID: 105870 |