Ashes of the Two Lands: Book 7 - The Severing Cycle

The war has stopped. Someone is already learning how to weaponize the peace.

The first agreements between the Gifted Lands and the people beyond the Riven were never meant to be grand.
A route. A purpose. A handful of names. A promise narrow enough that neither side had to surrender control to the other.
For a little while, it works.
Then a recovery mission ends in blood.
The attackers knew exactly where the party would be. They knew when it would move. Most dangerously of all, they knew the private recognition marks meant to keep the travelers safe.
Now every safeguard Veyra and Seradin helped build has become a possible weapon, and both lands have reason to believe the betrayal came from the other side.
As grief hardens into accusation, Veyra, Seradin, Vaileth, and the people carrying messages between two wounded civilizations must discover how the information escaped without destroying the fragile trust that allowed it to exist at all.
Because the next war will not begin with an army crossing a border.
It will begin when enough people decide they already know who is guilty.

Ashes of the Two Lands begins The Concord Reborn, the third trilogy of The Severing Cycle, an epic dark fantasy of divided peoples, dangerous power, political consequence, and the brutal work of building peace after war.