Veythar

Amara survived the fall of Veythar by walking into the Fen and not coming back out the same.Ten years. Long enough to lose her court, her crown, and the version of herself who believed any of it was worth keeping. The marsh asked nothing of her except to remain alive in it. She did that work. She got good at it.She did not plan to return.The shard changed that. Old Veythari stone, warming against her throat for the first time since she ran — answering something underneath the dead city she used to rule. The Kharuun occupiers do not know what the shard is. The boy who attached himself to her does not know what she is. The fenfolk she trained for war thought she was passing through.She was passing through. Until she wasn't.She is going back to Veythar, and she is not going alone.VEYTHAR is a quiet, dangerous novel about what survival makes of the people who refuse to be made gentle by it. Set in the ruined heart of a sacked empire, it follows a deposed queen, the boy who watches her, and the small company that walks with her into a city that has begun to answer questions no one alive remembers asking.For readers of Madeline Miller's Circe, Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale, and Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice — slow-burn literary fantasy that trusts its reader. Read more