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    612-822-4611

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January Sons

January Sons

Joryn, A. R.

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798190229455
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.09
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

January Sons is devotional horror steeped in mythic social fiction. It tells a story of sacred cruelty and the slow unlearning of a people taught to worship their own undoing.

Expected to inherit a world built on devotion and restraint, Joren Malreth was born on the first of January at Velthorn Hospital, deep inside a compound where order is a religion and silence is its sacrament. Raised to obey without question, he never doubts the architecture around him, not until his twin disappears. Forced to face that architecture head on, he uncovers a truth far older and far more damning. At the center of it is his father's name, written beside words like quotas, acquisitions, and consecration.

As the annual Daughter Rites approach, girls prepare to endure The Choosing, a ritual that praises the mercy of their priests as daughters die with grace while the devout gather to witness. Devotion blurs into control until the two become the same act. Read Joren's cautionary elegy, drawn from a culture that sanctified its own cruelty.

This is a novel that probes what happens when faith becomes spectacle and silence becomes violence.

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