The Veiled Blades
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When the fire took everything from Zac Virell, it left only ash, guilt, and a city collapsing under its own corruption.
Sanctum's Reach is rotting from the inside-its guilds, courts, and guards bought and broken. But when a shadowed figure known only as The Elder offers Zac a place in the Veiled Blades, a secret order sworn to cut out the rot, he's given something he never expected:
A second chance.
A purpose.
A war worth fighting.
As Zac descends into the city's underworld, he uncovers betrayals, buried truths, and a darkness inside himself far more dangerous than any criminal. If he can't control it...
...it will consume everything he has left.
In the neon-lit ruins of Ravencross, Zac must choose:
Become the city's last hope-
or its next ghost.
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