The War Below

The world is not broken. Not yet. In Kandaya, rebellion rises and falls like a tide, the Empire tightens its grip, and the Church promises that all souls return to the Five. Lucian never believed that. Because sometimes, in quiet places, he sees them, the ones who never left. When a death changes everything, Lucian is pulled into a hidden reality beneath the surface of his world, where magic is not power, but a symptom, and war is not fought for victory, but containment. Something is waking beneath Kandaya. And this time, the cycle may not repeat.