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Prayprey Cycle Breaker: CYCLEBREAKER: A Mythic Novel of Mercy, Monsters, and the Fire That Remembers
Paperback
Series: Prayprey Trilogy, Book 2
Publisher Price: $15.99
Publisher: Ember Glyph Press
Published: May 5 2025
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
PRAYPREY: Cycle Breaker is the second novel in the PRAYPREY trilogy-a sweeping mythic fantasy that explores what happens when compassion becomes the fiercest form of resistance. Lyrical, immersive, and unflinching, this is a story about memory, trauma, and transformation set in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by mantid civilizations, hollow gods, and biomechanical Titans.
At its center is PRAYPREY-a warrior bred for conquest, shaped by violence, and awakened to a deeper calling. In a world where mercy is forbidden and remembrance is weaponized, she carries the Five Relics of Mercy and dares to break the cycles that bind her people. What begins as survival becomes something much greater: a journey toward healing, not just for herself, but for a shattered world still trembling from ancestral wounds.
In Cycle Breaker, the Hollow Swarm has fallen-but beneath the crumbling surface, something older stirs. Titans rise from fossil beds. Fungal filaments thread through the earth, pulling strings that reach deeper than war. And as cities burn and loyalties fracture, PRAYPREY must choose whether mercy still matters when it seems to fail-when the cost of it is everything.
Told with poetic force and cinematic scope, this novel blends fantasy, science fiction, and spiritual allegory into a powerful narrative about forgiveness, identity, and the courage to hold light in a darkening age. It asks: What if the bravest thing you could do wasn't to fight-but to love anyway? And what if that love could change the fate of a world?
For readers of N.K. Jemisin, Jeff VanderMeer, Erin Morgenstern, and R.F. Kuang, PRAYPREY: Cycle Breaker offers a rich and visionary experience-equally suited for lovers of high fantasy, speculative fiction, and deeply human storytelling.
Themes explored include:
- Mercy as sacred defiance in violent systems
- Nonhuman sentience and cultural evolution
- Generational trauma and inherited memory
- The mythic convergence of thought, voice, and will
- Forgiveness, identity, and radical transformation
This book is written for anyone who's ever loved the monster, carried too much, or looked into the ruin and still laid down seeds. But its reach is wide: from epic fantasy fans to philosophical readers, from spiritual seekers to science fiction lovers. Whether you're here for world-shattering battles or inner awakenings, there is a fire waiting for you in these pages.
The ember remembers-and if you're ready, this story will, too.
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