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The Severed Line

The Severed Line

Batista, Rui

Paperback

Series: Years of Consequence

Historical Fiction

ISBN13: 9798197659408
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The line was built to endure. It was believed unbreakable.

In 1578, a monk blesses an army he fears is marching into ruin. Twenty thousand men kneel in Moroccan dust. At the front stands Sebastian, Portugal's young king, armored in certainty and watched by men who have mistaken devotion for command.

The monk reads the Latin. The king gives a single nod. The army rises.

By day's end, the field has taken more than soldiers. The king is missing. The body is unconfirmed. The succession has begun to fail before anyone is ready to name the failure. What should have ended in mourning instead becomes rumor, prayer, and national refusal.

As Portugal waits for a king who may never return, faith becomes evidence, absence becomes argument, and silence begins to do the work of politics. The monk who gave the Church's hand to a boy-king must live inside the ruin of a blessing that can still be spoken but no longer holds.

The sixth volume in the Years of Consequence series, The Severed Line is a novel about belief after catastrophe, a kingdom unable to bury what it cannot confirm, and the dangerous life of a story that survives the men who needed it to be true.

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