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Drachenfels - Covenant of Shadows
Paperback
Series: Inheritance Cycle, Book 1
Publisher: Terry Broullette
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 574
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Forensic investigator Markus Adler is drawn into a long, methodical inquiry that reaches beneath the surface of Bavaria's oldest estates, where crimes are preserved not in testimony but in stone, lineage, and ritual silence. Each site reveals another layer of a buried system-architectural residues, monastic records, and generational patterns that bind the living to the dead. As Markus and legal archivist Catrina von Dietingen trace these convergences, the investigation becomes less a sequence of cases and more an excavation of the structures that have shaped the region's darkest histories.
When the investigation turns toward the deeper vaults and sealed chambers, Markus and Catrina uncover evidence of deliberate alterations-missing entries, displaced artifacts, and archival inconsistencies-that undermine the established record and expose a deeper pattern within the system they've been tracing. What begins as a localized inquiry expands into a structural threat, forcing them to confront the implications of a design that reaches further-and cuts deeper-than either of them anticipated.
As the evidence is cataloged and the contradictions mapped, Markus and Catrina are forced to reassess the parameters of the inquiry. The patterns emerging from their findings point toward a design that cannot be dismissed as coincidence or decay, and the next phase of the investigation demands a deeper examination of the structures that have shaped these events. What they uncover here becomes the foundation for the steps they must take next.
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