The Severing Cycle

Veyra has spent her life unseen — a nameless worker in a city that worships harmony while quietly discarding anyone who doesn’t fit its perfect shape. When she witnesses a murder committed by a powerful house, the accusation turns back on her. Branded a liar, condemned without trial, she is cast into the Rivenwild: a vast, forbidden wilderness...

The Gifted Lands have believed for a hundred years that the Rivenwild only takes. No one returns. No one is meant to.
Then a slate arrives at the Rim, carved with words that shouldn’t exist — and First Speaker Seradin Halveris must decide whether to protect a century of comfortable certainty, or the truth that’s about to break it apart.
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