the Alliston Legacy - "Don't Let Them Take Song"

Some stories begin with a sword. This one begins with a ledger.For six hundred years, Warlock David Alliston has survived the Edict - a supernatural bureaucracy that doesn't conquer worlds with armies, but with paperwork. It categorizes what it cannot control. It erases what it cannot categorize. And it has been building a file on David since the fall of Mali in 1424. In The Alliston Legacy: Series 1, David learned what survival costs. He learned to fold his light into the cracks, to stay quiet, to stay hidden - and to watch helplessly while a system built on cold math converted genius into labor, identity into inventory, and people into line items. In this series, we ask the harder questions: What do we owe the world we've been hiding from? From the fog-wrapped cliffs of Cornwall to the neon chaos of Las Vegas, Books Six through Twelve invite you to join the fray. This is a journey alongside a defiant found family fighting to protect an ancient sanctuary, a magical legacy, and the stubborn, sovereign truth that some powers are too wild-and some souls too alive-to ever be standardized. This is a story about the moral weight of survival. About whether silence is strategy or complicity. About what we owe the people the system tried to erase - and what we become when we finally stop letting them take the song.You don't need to have read Series 1 to find your way in. But if you have - welcome back to the Mess.

Pages: 389, Paperback, Independently published