C.D. Espeseth

Not every song ends in harmony. Some end in Dissonance. The final cycle has begun. Kai Johnston is done being used. Haunted by the lives taken through his power and betrayed by the one person he wanted to trust, he walks away from queens, armies, prophecy, and war. But the rhythm inside him is...

Thannis is no longer content to survive the chaos. He means to master it. As he builds railways, weapons, and a new empire from the ruins of the old, the thing growing inside him hungers for more—and the line between visionary and monster begins to vanish.

The past does not stay buried. It awakens. Jonah thought he had escaped his old life. He was wrong. Memories sealed behind grief and trauma are returning, and with them comes the truth of what he once was, what he did, and a secret powerful enough to shatter the Empire. Across Salucia, the...

Wayran wants one thing: the truth behind the Jendar, an ancient technomancer race that vanished overnight, leaving only myths and impossible machines.