A Work of Demons (Ashfyre Book 1)
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A Work of Demons is the first of the Ashfyre series. 247,000 words of Epic Fantasy mixed with grimdark, and romance. This is the first book of the World of the Thinlands.
Nyd wanted only enough coin to live quietly and be left alone. Selka never believed in better, only in surviving what came next. Malda trusted strength and little else. Colm was slated to be executed for a crime he had no choice but to commit. None of them were meant for princes, armies, or the long shadow of old legends. But this is a world where brutal kings call conquest destiny, where conniving princes dress ambition in the language of justice, and where knights, polished in iron and prayer, prove anything but honorable. In such a place, ordinary lives are kindling.
Hunted by Tal’s butchers and drawn into Baladur’s fragile succession, the three fugitives are caught between brothers who speak of loyalty while honing blades for war. Each must decide what they believe about power, whether it can ever be wielded justly, and what they are willing to lose to survive its pull. While elsewhere a young man takes his first steps to become a member of an Order that answers to no law but it’s own.
Told through the shifting perspectives of multiple ordinary souls swept into extraordinary violence, this is a grim tale of ambition, betrayal, and the terrible cost of believing that this time, the world might be remade without blood.