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The Gilded Cage: An Echo Adaptation Novel

The Gilded Cage: An Echo Adaptation Novel

Hussain, Murshed

Paperback

Young Adult Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798170693115
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He won the arena. Now he has to survive being owned by it.

Ravenheart is a champion now - and champions get bought. Lord Vaelthorne's sponsorship buys him a place at Ironspire, an academy built to produce tournament winners and erase everything inconvenient about where they came from. The prize on offer is real: archive access, real answers about Kaelindra, about the bloodline, about the mother he barely remembers. The price is fighting his way through a bracket of increasingly dangerous sponsored rivals while a hired trainer named Rurik Vane drills a single lesson into him - the one Shen never had time to finish teaching. Power without restraint is just a faster way to lose the people you're trying to protect.

Shen is gone, taken at the end of Book 1, held somewhere called the Ashenmire while Ravenheart fights under another man's name. Every win buys another day. Every loss might cost Shen his life. And somewhere above the tournament brackets, a masked man once named Kaelen watches, closer than he's ever been, still choosing not to take what he could already have.

When Ravenheart finally learns where the empire is holding Shen, winning stops being about the archive and starts being about a rescue with a closing window - and what he finds on the other side changes what he thought this fight was ever supposed to be about.

Win the cage. Keep your name. The gilded chain has a price, too.

Perfect for fans of Red Rising, Fourth Wing, and Legendborn. The Gilded Cage is the second book in The Echo Adaptation Trilogy, a progression fantasy series featuring sponsorship politics, tournament combat, found family under pressure, and a protagonist learning that restraint is its own kind of strength.

Content Note: Contains violence and themes of captivity, ownership, and systemic control. Recommended for ages 14+.

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