‘I'm Wade. Rank zero. The man who holds everyone's ceiling in place has opened his gate to me, and he wants my hands on his machine for good.’
Rhya, a lynxkin hunter whose lost kin have finally sent word.
Aurelie, a mage copying the records nobody was meant to see.
Sevrine, a former warder giving evidence about her own Order.
Maren, a shield bearer saving for an inn of her own.
Kestrel, a duelist learning to fight with her other hand.
Ossaren has kept the boundary whole for longer than anyone remembers, bound to his post while caps were laid into every soul. Now the holding is failing. He offers Wade the keeper's chair. Wade wants to forge supports that let ordinary workers stand watch instead, while the precinct's Overseer wants a keeper he can control.
1. A precinct of failing iron where every trial piece is tested under real load.
2. Level choices, stat gains, and a smith working around injured hands.
3. Five established relationships with tenderness, humor, and heat.
Book 5 in Rankless. Read in order.
Adult readers: every intimate scene is shared between consenting, unrelated adults.
Genre: Fantasy
Rhya, a lynxkin hunter whose lost kin have finally sent word.
Aurelie, a mage copying the records nobody was meant to see.
Sevrine, a former warder giving evidence about her own Order.
Maren, a shield bearer saving for an inn of her own.
Kestrel, a duelist learning to fight with her other hand.
Ossaren has kept the boundary whole for longer than anyone remembers, bound to his post while caps were laid into every soul. Now the holding is failing. He offers Wade the keeper's chair. Wade wants to forge supports that let ordinary workers stand watch instead, while the precinct's Overseer wants a keeper he can control.
1. A precinct of failing iron where every trial piece is tested under real load.
2. Level choices, stat gains, and a smith working around injured hands.
3. Five established relationships with tenderness, humor, and heat.
Book 5 in Rankless. Read in order.
Adult readers: every intimate scene is shared between consenting, unrelated adults.
Genre: Fantasy
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