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The Ashen Tide: The Ashen Tide: An Epic Political Fantasy of Court Intrigue, Exiled Heirs, Ritual Magic, and a Kingdom Under Siege
Paperback
Series: Valemere Chronicles, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Book Three of The Valemere Chronicles
A broken ship crosses the Straits in a storm.
On board are eleven survivors, a dead king's daughter, and a secret powerful enough to turn Valemere's fragile reform into a continental crisis.
Eighteen months after King Corin exposed the corruption behind his own succession trial, Valemere is no longer hiding its power. Its records are open. Its wards are visible. Its throne is bound to truth.
But beyond its borders, that truth is being treated as a disease.
Foreign ships vanish from Valemere's harbours. Trade routes go quiet. Ritual institutions across the continent begin to close ranks. Then Iseult of Solmere arrives at Greyhaven, salt-sick and hunted, claiming that her father's throne was stolen through a corrupted trial much like Corin's own.
Sheltering her is dangerous.
Believing her may be worse.
As Solmere demands her return, Corin's council must weigh principle against survival. Seraphine sees the diplomatic trap. Marghen follows the money. Elara and the reformed Sanctum uncover a deeper pattern in the sigils. What first appears to be a foreign succession dispute becomes evidence of something older, wider, and far more deliberate.
The same hidden grammar that corrupted Valemere's Trial of Silver Ash may have crossed the sea.
And if two thrones were compromised, others may have been as well.
Now Corin must decide whether transparency is only a law for his own kingdom, or a duty that reaches beyond the border. To protect Valemere, he may have to expose a truth the continent is willing to bury.
And the tide has already begun to turn.
The Ashen Tide is a court-driven epic fantasy of political intrigue, ritual magic, exiled heirs, sovereign pressure, and the cost of telling the truth when every kingdom around you depends on silence.
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