Cipher: Echoes of Entropy
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 662
Weight: 1.73
Height: 1.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nobody in Seiyron knows the city is being protected. They're about to learn what that protection costs.
Beneath the neon and the ordinary evening traffic, a hidden order bends reality to hold the world together and quietly erases every trace of the things that try to tear it apart. The public never sees the monsters. They never see the people who die stopping them. That silence is the whole arrangement. The silence is sacred.
Rhys Vaughn was never supposed to matter. A hooded runaway with a small dark stone pressed to his chest and a heartbeat that ticks in a rhythm reality keeps flinching away from three, then seven, then twelve he's swept into the Cipher Academy the moment something ancient notices he exists. Rivalries, injuries, gossip, and a wall of names that used to be students. But Rhys isn't a new recruit. He's a door. And whatever waits on the other side of him remembers being let out once before.
The only force dangerous enough to stand between that door and the world is casually apocalyptic, quietly exhausted, more human than the people she saves and feared by every one of them. She has spent years arriving a heartbeat too late and paying for her restraint in scars. Now the city she bleeds for has begun to wonder whether a protector that powerful should be allowed to remain free at all.
Saving Rhys may shatter the secret that keeps everyone alive. And the people who love Yuki most have already started building her cage out of mercy.
Cipher: Echoes of Entropy is the explosive opening of an urban-fantasy trilogy about power, loyalty, and the unbearable cost of being the one everyone relies on. Cinematic and emotionally sharp, with a magic system that runs on hard rules and real consequences for readers who love their action fantasy brutal, ensemble-driven, and impossible to put down.
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