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The Burden of the Local Lie
Paperback
Series: The Managed Dark Trilogy, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The raids on Greyhaven's frontier roads have been getting worse. More coordinated. More deliberate. And the monsters aren't behaving the way monsters should.
Enix Tass is a gnome alchemist with a workshop full of compounds that have cheerful names and devastating applications. He's been a militia volunteer long enough to know the difference between a bad season and a pattern. This is a pattern.
Alongside a field medic who heals people and sometimes can't, a halfling investigator who reads rooms better than he reads people, a soldier who hasn't lost yet, and a disgraced scholar who knows exactly what the numbers mean - Enix starts pulling on the thread.
What's underneath it is old. It has a name. It has been running quietly for fifteen years. And the institution responsible isn't hiding because it's ashamed. It's hiding because a managed problem is easier to continue than explain.
The Burden of the Local Lie is the first book in The Managed Dark trilogy - a dark fantasy about competence, found family, and what it costs to learn the truth about the place you've spent your life protecting.
The raids were never random. The suffering was never accidental. Greyhaven was never just a town.
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