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The Raven of Embers
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Series: Blood Before Dawn, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798186845140
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He was five when his parents were murdered. At fifteen, the first surviving piece of the truth finally finds him.
Klaus Crowe has spent ten years hiding old wounds beneath a sharp smile and an even sharper mind. Low-born and raised within the temple, he earned his place at the Royal Academy through talent alone, becoming a strategist capable of turning certain defeat into a trap his enemies never see closing.
Klaus Crowe has spent ten years hiding old wounds beneath a sharp smile and an even sharper mind. Low-born and raised within the temple, he earned his place at the Royal Academy through talent alone, becoming a strategist capable of turning certain defeat into a trap his enemies never see closing.
But battlefield victories are only practice.
Klaus possesses Skill Reaver, a rare and dangerous ability that allows him to understand the techniques of others, claim their foundations, and reshape what he learns into something uniquely his own. Every duel makes him stronger. Every opponent leaves something behind.
Yet power has never been his true goal.
Klaus wants the truth about the night his family died.
As the academy's final trials approach, a hidden message appears inside a forgotten archive. It carries a symbol from his father's past and six words capable of reopening every scar Klaus has spent years concealing:
The ash door did not burn.
The message leads him to scattered loyalists, altered records, vanished witnesses, and a title he never asked to inherit: the Raven of Embers. His parents were not victims of a random attack. Their deaths were planned, the village was burned to conceal the evidence, and those responsible may still be watching.
Graduation offers Klaus a road away from the academy, but not away from the conspiracy. Alongside Sera, the healer who refuses to let him destroy himself; Rika, the Fox Folk huntress who can track nearly anything; and Eric, a charming swordsman whose foolish performance hides a far keener mind, Klaus forms the adventuring party Radiant Calamity.
Their first year brings monster hunts, dangerous guild contracts, missing witnesses, buried records, and enemies who understand far too much about Klaus's past. With every mission, his party grows stronger and his father's hidden network begins moving beneath his command.
To uncover the truth, Klaus must transform scattered loyalty into a weapon, survive the people who buried his family, and decide how much of himself he is willing to sacrifice before vengeance becomes the only thing left.
The Raven of Embers is the first book in the Blood Before Dawn series, a dark epic-fantasy adventure filled with strategic battles, divine blessings, learnable magic, hidden abilities, sharp humor, found family, slow-building romance, and a relentless rise from forgotten orphan to a force capable of shaking kingdoms.
Klaus possesses Skill Reaver, a rare and dangerous ability that allows him to understand the techniques of others, claim their foundations, and reshape what he learns into something uniquely his own. Every duel makes him stronger. Every opponent leaves something behind.
Yet power has never been his true goal.
Klaus wants the truth about the night his family died.
As the academy's final trials approach, a hidden message appears inside a forgotten archive. It carries a symbol from his father's past and six words capable of reopening every scar Klaus has spent years concealing:
The ash door did not burn.
The message leads him to scattered loyalists, altered records, vanished witnesses, and a title he never asked to inherit: the Raven of Embers. His parents were not victims of a random attack. Their deaths were planned, the village was burned to conceal the evidence, and those responsible may still be watching.
Graduation offers Klaus a road away from the academy, but not away from the conspiracy. Alongside Sera, the healer who refuses to let him destroy himself; Rika, the Fox Folk huntress who can track nearly anything; and Eric, a charming swordsman whose foolish performance hides a far keener mind, Klaus forms the adventuring party Radiant Calamity.
Their first year brings monster hunts, dangerous guild contracts, missing witnesses, buried records, and enemies who understand far too much about Klaus's past. With every mission, his party grows stronger and his father's hidden network begins moving beneath his command.
To uncover the truth, Klaus must transform scattered loyalty into a weapon, survive the people who buried his family, and decide how much of himself he is willing to sacrifice before vengeance becomes the only thing left.
The Raven of Embers is the first book in the Blood Before Dawn series, a dark epic-fantasy adventure filled with strategic battles, divine blessings, learnable magic, hidden abilities, sharp humor, found family, slow-building romance, and a relentless rise from forgotten orphan to a force capable of shaking kingdoms.
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