THE LATTICE OF ASHES: ARC ONE: STILLNESS

The Accord does not govern Vael Tareth.It authors it.For one hundred and eighty-eight years, reality in this city has not been discovered - it has been decided. The records. The boundaries. The bells that ring twice every hour to correct for the river's echo. Every institution, every verified document, every agreed-upon truth exists because someone, a very long time ago, chose what would be real and built an architecture to keep it that way.The architecture is holding.For now.The Lattice of Ashes is a literary dark fantasy with no protagonists - only antagonists, each completely right about different things, each paying a cost the story does not let them escape. It is told slowly, precisely, and without mercy toward easy answers.Arc I: The Stillness is where the world is still ordinary.It will not stay that way.

Pages: 169, Paperback, Independently published