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Empire of Salt and Ash
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 18 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She built the empire's greatest system.
Now it's breaking-and it remembers everything.
General Cassia Vale has spent twenty years binding demons into the machinery of the Saltborn Empire-powering its bridges, its aqueducts, its roads. The result is a civilization that never fails.
Until it does.
When the bindings begin to collapse, something older than the empire walks free.
Dren-the first of the bound, carrying six centuries of memory-has not come for revenge.
He has come with terms.
As the empire edges toward chaos, Cassia faces a choice no general was trained to make:
Rebuild control through force
Or sit across from the enemy and negotiate for a future no one believes is possible
Because the truth is no longer deniable:
The empire wasn't built on strength.
It was built on something far worse.
And now the cost is due.
The Empire of Salt and Screaming is a dark epic fantasy about power, accountability, and the brutal work of making things right when winning is no longer an option.
Perfect for readers who want:
morally complex protagonists
political power struggles
dark magic systems with consequences
slow-burn tension over spectacle
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