The roads were never built to carry people. They were built to count them.
Mara Vey tore her way out of the Briars alive, marked, and very much not under anyone’s control. Now the people who once treated living Cathedrals like property have built something worse: a brutal network of holding spans, bell nodes, ladder intakes, and hidden routes designed to turn whole regions into a machine.
When Mara uncovers the truth beneath the roads, she finds a system that doesn’t just move labor and prisoners—it hunts anyone the living infrastructure has touched. To stop it, she and her ragged band of survivors will have to descend into the dark heart of the Crown Circuit, where the rules are written in blood, iron, and buried roots.
But every road takes a price.
And the deeper Mara goes, the more the system begins to recognize her.
THORNCALL is Book 3 of the Thornblood Saint series: a dark progression fantasy full of brutal action, living ruins, monstrous infrastructure, found family, and a heroine who solves problems the old-fashioned way—with stubbornness, violence, and absolutely no respect for authority.
Genre: GameLit
Mara Vey tore her way out of the Briars alive, marked, and very much not under anyone’s control. Now the people who once treated living Cathedrals like property have built something worse: a brutal network of holding spans, bell nodes, ladder intakes, and hidden routes designed to turn whole regions into a machine.
When Mara uncovers the truth beneath the roads, she finds a system that doesn’t just move labor and prisoners—it hunts anyone the living infrastructure has touched. To stop it, she and her ragged band of survivors will have to descend into the dark heart of the Crown Circuit, where the rules are written in blood, iron, and buried roots.
But every road takes a price.
And the deeper Mara goes, the more the system begins to recognize her.
THORNCALL is Book 3 of the Thornblood Saint series: a dark progression fantasy full of brutal action, living ruins, monstrous infrastructure, found family, and a heroine who solves problems the old-fashioned way—with stubbornness, violence, and absolutely no respect for authority.
Genre: GameLit
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