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The Price of Sixty Years: A Veil-Touched Commander. A War Sixty Years Old. A Cost Only She Can Pay.
Paperback
Series: The Veilborn War, Book 10
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 21 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Seren Vael has died twice and come back both times.
The Veil kept her. She has never been certain why.
Now two empires have agreed on a joint operation against the thinning front, and her name is at the top of the command list. Not because of her tactical record. Because of what she is. Because someone designed the operation around the thing she has never told anyone, and built the draw into the architecture, and is counting on her to stand at five active weak points for long enough that the mechanism takes what it needs.
She read the documents carefully enough to see the shape of what they built.
Cadriel Voss has been the First Blade of the Vorath Empire for six years. He has known what Seren is for four of them. He told nobody. He studied the mechanism in parallel, built the model, watched her work, and said nothing until the operation made silence the wrong choice.
He finds her in a market in a borrowed city and asks her privately not to take the command.
She goes back and tells him everything.
What the Veil built into her. What the operation will draw on. What the third processing event may not return. The full picture, because he has spent four years carrying the partial one for her sake, and she is not going to give him less than he earned.
What happens in the two days before she signs is between them.
What happens at location three will determine whether she comes back at all.
The Veil front is not a military problem. Sixty years of war did not produce it and sixty years of peace would not stop it. The membrane is thinning and the peak is eight weeks out and the joint operation is the only architecture available, built from the wrong tools, aimed at the right target, and running on a lead commander the mechanism has already claimed twice.
She takes the command.
She knows what it costs.
She goes anyway.
The Price of Sixty Years is Book Ten of The Veilborn War Series. Phase Two ends here. For readers who want their fantasy romance with real stakes, a morally grey female lead who does not soften for anyone, and a slow burn that took ten books to fully arrive.
Phase Three begins in Book Eleven.
Start reading today.
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