The Men Of Shiv

Dario Shiv has spent his life being shaped-by his father's brutal training, by the dream of becoming a knight, and by the vow he made the day his little brother was born: to protect him from everything. But when Dario finally steps into a world beyond Windbreak, he discovers that the greatest dangers aren't beasts lurking in the woods-they're secrets buried in his own family.
A chance encounter with Nami, a sharp-minded Lethos girl, awakens questions Dario was raised never to ask. Why does his father fear her people so fiercely? Why is the Kingsguard the only future Dario is allowed to have? And what really happened in Windbreak before he was old enough to remember?
When a violent attack in the forest shatters everything he thought he knew, Dario is forced to confront the truth: the monsters he's been trained to fight may not be the ones with claws.