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Blood of the broken prophecy: Book 1 of the The Shattered Veil Trilogy
Paperback
Series: The Shattered Veil Trilogy, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 13 2025
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Blood of the Broken Prophecy follows Drazen, an immortal bound to an ancient bloodline shaped by prophecy, restraint, and ritualized control. Raised within a closed system designed to preserve order across centuries, he was trained not to rule, but to endure-to become a living foundation for a future he was never meant to question.
Drazen did question it.
And for that, he was cast out.
Exiled from the institution that shaped him, Drazen lives in enforced distance from the blood, rites, and voices that once defined his existence. Though removed from its center, he cannot escape its reach. The blood remembers. The bond remains.
Livia never left.
Where Drazen withdrew, Livia stayed and adapted. Brilliant, disciplined, and unyielding, she commits herself fully to preserving the structure that raised them both. To Livia, prophecy is not fate but architecture-something to be maintained, reinforced, and, when necessary, enforced. Control is not cruelty; it is responsibility.
As the world beyond their secluded order begins to encroach-through human institutions probing forces they do not understand-the fragile equilibrium fractures. Old rites are reactivated. Dormant mechanisms awaken. What was once hidden is pressured into response.
Drazen is drawn back toward the bloodline he rejected, forced to confront the consequences of both obedience and refusal. Livia, increasingly isolated within her role, tightens her grip on doctrine, convinced that mercy invites collapse. Between them lies a shared past, a shared language of violence and care, and a bond that refuses to sever cleanly.
Across three acts, the novel traces the slow unraveling of belief. Faith hardens into dogma. Love becomes liability. Protection mutates into domination. The prophecy that once promised continuity reveals itself as a tool-one capable of preserving the future only by erasing choice.
The final fracture between Drazen and Livia is not explosive but inevitable: a severing born of incompatible truths. In choosing mercy, Drazen accepts exile not just from power, but from certainty. In choosing control, Livia accepts the cost of becoming the very instrument the system requires.
Blood of the Broken Prophecy is a gothic dark fantasy about immortality as confinement, prophecy as mechanism, and the quiet, devastating violence of belief. It is a story of blood not as inheritance alone, but as obligation-and of what is lost when survival demands silence.
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