The Bandits of Tearlim

They came for coin. They bled for Tearlim. In the Theryn world of novels, Tearlim is a city built on fear, hunger, and old blood. Its chieftain rules by rope, flame, and sharpened law, squeezing the poor until even mercy feels like a crime. Into that broken city ride Garric "Ironhand" Vane and his band of thieves, killers, smugglers, and almost-heroes, men who know the weight of stolen coin better than the weight of a cause. They come to Tearlim for profit. They find gallows smoke, starving children, poisoned grain, and a people too beaten to hope aloud. When Captain Virella Vance offers them a path from banditry into rebellion, Garric must choose whether a man with blood on his hands can still spend his life buying back a soul. But freedom in Theryn is never given cleanly. The Red Hound is coming. The city's walls are rotten with betrayal. Every alley hides a knife, every oath asks for a corpse, and every victory leaves another friend cold in the mud. As Tearlim rises, Garric's band must become more than the monsters the city believes them to be, or die proving that even the damned can stand between tyrants and the innocent. Grim, brutal, and mournful, The Bandits of Tearlim is a tale of thieves who became a shield, of rebellion paid for in ash, and of the names a city whispers when the bells finally ring free. Bandits become rebels when Tearlim's chains demand blood, betrayal, and a freedom paid in ash.

Pages: 371, Paperback, Independently published