The Shadowed Crown

Two years of war have hardened Eldoria, and hardened the men who lead it even more.General Joseph Thorne has spent every one of those two years holding the border, burying soldiers, and becoming exactly the kind of man a kingdom at war needs: unshakeable, unquestioned, utterly trusted.He has also spent those two years keeping a secret he was never meant to carry alone, and carrying it for far too long.Wars end eventually. When this one does, Joseph will have to face what two years of command, loss, and silence have made of him, and decide what to do with the truth he's kept buried, now that no one is watching closely enough to stop him.The Shadowed Crown is a story about what a war leaves behind in the men who fight it, what a secret does to a man who holds it too long, and what a kingdom risks when it stops asking hard questions of the one man it trusts to have all the answers.