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The Shattering of Balance: Book III of The Dawn of Balance Trilogy (The Crystal Fox Saga)
Paperback
Series: The Dawn of Balance Trilogy, Book 3
Publisher: Crystal Fox Press
Published: Apr 11 2026
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The world was never meant to be ruled.
For centuries, the Eclipsera Stone held reality in fragile harmony-fire and stillness, growth and decay, time and shadow bound together in living balance. At its heart stood Serenya, the First Guardian, chosen to protect what could never be controlled.
But balance has a cost.
After witnessing the endless suffering of a world left to chance, Avarith-once Serenya's closest ally-has reached a final, irreversible conclusion:
Balance isn't enough.
When he returns to the hidden Sanctuary and touches the Stone once more, he does not seek to wield its power.
He breaks it.
From that moment, the world begins to change-not through chaos, but through terrifying precision. The forces that once held reality together separate into absolutes. Fire no longer tempers. Time no longer yields. Shadow no longer retreats.
Seven dominions rise.
Seven sovereign powers take form-each a perfect expression of a single force, each reshaping the world in its own image. Under their rule, cities become safer, systems more efficient, and life more predictable.
But something essential begins to disappear.
Freedom fades into obedience. Trust gives way to control. Humanity adapts-but at a cost no one can fully name.
As Avarith's vision of perfect order spreads across the world, Serenya faces an impossible truth: she cannot restore what has been lost.
Instead, she must decide what can still be saved.
What follows is not a battle for victory, but a final confrontation between two unyielding philosophies-control against connection, certainty against freedom, perfection against life itself.
And when the last choice is made, the world will not end.
It will become something else.
A sweeping epic of power, consequence, and the cost of certainty, The Shattering of Balance is the devastating conclusion to a trilogy where the greatest threat is not destruction-but a world that works too well.
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