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The Mercy of Monsters

The Mercy of Monsters

Calloway, John

Paperback

Fantasy

ISBN13: 9798176776256
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 24 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the ninth day, the Shatterwall fell inward. King Orren Vale crawled out from beneath a dead signalman and sent what was left of his country south. The thing that followed them did not need to win a battle. It offered kinder memories, finished grief, and a peace that asked only for a name. At Cinderwake, Commander Senna Vey counts refugees by lives, not banners. Behind the fortress walls, Tamsin discovers that the soil remembers the dead-and sometimes gives them back. Beneath the ancient stone, a terrible truth waits: the fortress was never built merely to keep an enemy out. As armies gather and the walls begin to fail, old oaths become weapons, mercy becomes a dangerous bargain, and every attempt to save the living demands a price from the dead. Orren must confront the bloodline that helped create the kingdom's oldest wound. Senna must decide what a commander can sacrifice without becoming the very thing she fights. And those who survive must face a question no victory can answer: What if the walls protecting them are also keeping the wound open? The Mercy of Monsters is a dark epic fantasy of siege warfare, ancient bargains, fractured memory, and the terrible cost of choosing who gets to live.

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