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Ascension - The Hidden Empire: Book II
Paperback
Series: Ascension, Book 2
ISBN13: 9781918005028
Publisher: Mkv25.Net/Books
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Not all empires are built with armies. Some are built with jam, cocktails, and better infrastructure.
Helena and Aurelian are Highspire Academy students on holiday-at least, that's what Valecourt is meant to believe. When they arrive in the sun-warmed harbour town, they carry knowledge, magic, and patience far beyond their years. They are not here to conquer. They are here to build.
What begins as a handful of businesses and civic improvements quietly becomes something unprecedented: a hidden nation nested inside the city itself. Wages rise. Communities knit closer. Magic hums beneath cobblestones and kitchen hearths alike. People flourish-and cannot quite explain why.
Someone always notices.
As patterns emerge, intelligence services grow uneasy. Bank clerks trace impossible flows of money. A wounded soldier discovers a future he did not expect. Dockhands, merchants, and spies alike are drawn into an expanding orbit of influence that no one can quite name-let alone control.
Helena and Aurelian know how empires fall. They know how history ends. Their greatest enemy is not discovery, nor politics, nor war-but time itself, which cannot be bargained with, only delayed.
Ascension: The Hidden Empire is a lyrical fantasy set in the Kingdom of Wynnal-a story about power exercised through kindness, identity worn as a deliberate costume, and the unsettling question of what to build when death is not defeated-only postponed.
For readers who love intricate worldbuilding, quiet authority, and stories where the most dangerous weapon is a well-placed jam jar.
Book II - Lyrical Fantasy
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Published by mkv25.net/books
Ages 15+, YA, Lyrical Fantasy
Copyright (c) 2026 J. Markavian
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