Silas Karsson can hear the wrong notes in the world. Lately, they’ve been getting louder.
After a botched hit in Avenhar lets an explosives merchant slip away—and the manor self-destructs in a blast that doesn’t sound entirely natural—Silas is reassigned before the blood on his wire is dry. His handler gives him a new target in Valthenar, a city clawed apart by the Hand and the remnants of the old regime, and an impossible condition: finish the job in a week… or become disposable.
Silas and his assigned partner Carris ride west into fae touched places where shadows double and the air tastes of copper and flowers, where the memory stone from Yur burns warm in warning, and where even Guild communications feel compromised. Someone is listening. Someone is cutting lines. And someone is moving threshold-resonant materials—crates and wagons filled with the essence of the fae gates themselves.
In Valthenar, the assignment isn’t just an assassination. It’s a doorway into a conspiracy: harvested gate-frequency, silenced talents, and an engineer named Harwell building a resonance bridge designed to do what should be impossible—force the barriers between worlds to break. To stop it, Silas must trust a girl who listens to the Song without caging it, survive the Hand’s enforcers, and find a melody he didn’t know he still carried… before the bridge is completed and the world’s last thin line becomes an invitation.
Genre: Fantasy
After a botched hit in Avenhar lets an explosives merchant slip away—and the manor self-destructs in a blast that doesn’t sound entirely natural—Silas is reassigned before the blood on his wire is dry. His handler gives him a new target in Valthenar, a city clawed apart by the Hand and the remnants of the old regime, and an impossible condition: finish the job in a week… or become disposable.
Silas and his assigned partner Carris ride west into fae touched places where shadows double and the air tastes of copper and flowers, where the memory stone from Yur burns warm in warning, and where even Guild communications feel compromised. Someone is listening. Someone is cutting lines. And someone is moving threshold-resonant materials—crates and wagons filled with the essence of the fae gates themselves.
In Valthenar, the assignment isn’t just an assassination. It’s a doorway into a conspiracy: harvested gate-frequency, silenced talents, and an engineer named Harwell building a resonance bridge designed to do what should be impossible—force the barriers between worlds to break. To stop it, Silas must trust a girl who listens to the Song without caging it, survive the Hand’s enforcers, and find a melody he didn’t know he still carried… before the bridge is completed and the world’s last thin line becomes an invitation.
Genre: Fantasy