the Vigilance of Stone: Book 1

An order of nine once kept the world in balance. Now five survivors are all that remain of it. Jörm has spent his life inside the walls of a cult most people no longer believe exists - the Vigilance, an order entrusted with the relic that keeps the Empires from each other's throats. He has never seen the world beyond his island. He has never wielded a weapon in earnest. He has never met an Emperor. In the space of a season, all three change. What follows is a journey across a world fracturing along old fault lines, into the heart of an Empire whose ruler has been planning this war for thirty years - and whose hatred for the Vigilance is older than the Vigilance itself. Some sons inherit thrones. Some inherit grievances. And some, like Jörm, inherit the long memory of an ancestor who is no longer alive to wield it.

Pages: 231, Paperback, Independently published