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Painted Eyes the Awakening: The Painted Eyes Trilogy - Book Two Book Eight of the Quiet Violence Series
Paperback
Series: Quiet Violence
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 20 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The old Brotherhood survived in silence.
Now silence is no longer enough.
Lucian Auctoritas was never only a name. It was a shield. A constructed identity. A way for a wounded man to survive long enough to prepare the world for what was coming.
After Quiet Inheritance, the hidden lines have been revealed, the standing has taken place, and the old work has passed into a new age. But the enemy has also evolved.
No longer confined to private rooms, secret societies, or ancient ritual, the Hidden Hand now operates through digital identity, political influence, surveillance systems, financial control, public virtue, and invisible architecture. It does not need chains when it can make permission itself conditional.
In response, the Brotherhood begins again.
The Sacred Hand rises not as an army, but as a counter-current: witness, memory, loyalty, law, truth, and human sovereignty against a world being quietly redesigned to make obedience look like safety.
Lucian must now step beyond survival. Cole's operational world, Freyja's future, the old Brotherhood, and the unfinished work of the Painted Eyes converge as the battle moves from mountains and archives into the digital systems shaping the modern world.
The war was never only for power.
It was for the right to remain human.
The Painted Eyes: The Awakening is Book Two of the Painted Eyes trilogy and a companion to the Quiet Violence series.
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