the Last Hope of Vigilance: Book 2

Thirty years of peace bought with the blood of an order that no longer exists in numbers worth counting.Jörm has spent those years becoming something he never planned to be - a husband, a father, a name spoken with reverence he does not yet feel the full weight of. His daughter is sixteen. She dreams the same dreams that once tore him apart, but he cannot give her the same advice that helped him.Then a visiting Emperor comes bearing gifts and warnings, and shortly after - Marlaya is gone.What follows is a search that leads across the four Empires and into the one place Jörm swore he would never go again - the past. Because the man who took his daughter has been building toward this since before she was born, and the answers Jörm needs are held by the brother he has not spoken to in a decade.Some wounds are inherited. Some are chosen.And some are inflicted by the people we love most, for reasons we will never be ready to hear.