The Severing of the Veil: Book 3 - The Severing Cycle

A Warden is dead below a border that isn’t supposed to exist anymore. No one will say how — and the silence is about to cost everyone the peace they’ve barely begun to build.

Months after Veyra crossed back into the world that exiled her, an uneasy quiet holds between the Gifted Lands and the wilderness they call the Rivenwild. It has never been peace. But it has been enough — until a Warden named Pellan is found dead below the border, and no one on either side can prove who killed him.

First Speaker Seradin wants the truth. What he gets instead is a captain whose every answer is technically honest and completely evasive, a council that would rather manage the story than solve it, and a peace mission he authorizes without knowing it isn’t the only one already moving below the rim.

Below the Drop, Veyra has spent years learning the cost of the power she carries — and refusing, again and again, to let it decide who she becomes. But when the two missions collide in blood neither side intended, restraint may no longer be a choice she gets to make. What happens next will not be chosen. It will be given to her, by a dying man’s hands, in the one moment she can never take back.

Some truths get buried in a record. Others get buried in a person.

The Severing of the Veil is Book Three of The Severing Cycle — where an unsolved death becomes an unstoppable reckoning, and the line between two civilizations that were never at peace is about to break for good.