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The Sword Hidden Inside the Dead Man

The Sword Hidden Inside the Dead Man

Inman, Margaret

Paperback

Fantasy

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ISBN13: 9798240885372
Publisher: Margaret Grice Inman
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the Iron Provinces, the past is supposed to be dead.Twenty years after the devastating Great Calamity, the Order of the Silver Crest has been erased from history. Its warriors were declared traitors, its temples destroyed, and its surviving secrets buried beneath the new order of the Sun-Sect. Sergeant Jace Holloway has no reason to question that history-until he discovers a dead man who should have been dead for twenty years.Julian Mercer, a nobleman and former member of the legendary Silver Crest, is found kneeling in a rain-soaked alley beneath a supernatural phenomenon known as the Iron Frost. His body is perfectly preserved, untouched by decay and without a visible wound. It is as though time itself stopped around him at the moment of death.Jace is a practical investigator with no internal cultivation or breath. He trusts evidence, observation, and cold steel rather than the supernatural traditions that once ruled the provinces. But when the corpse is examined, a terrifying secret is uncovered: hidden inside the dead man's body is an ancient sword connected to the vanished Silver Crest.The blade bears strange symbols that belong neither to the Iron Provinces nor the Sun-Sect. When Jace makes a charcoal rubbing of its markings, the symbols reveal themselves as something more than decoration-a map, a warning, and evidence that the official history of the Great Calamity is a lie.The discovery puts Jace directly in the path of High Inquisitor Damien Whitmore, a ruthless servant of the Sun-Sect determined to seize the corpse and destroy any evidence of the Silver Crest's survival. Worse, Jace begins to suspect that his own father, Elias, a supposedly crippled blacksmith, knows far more about the old order than he has ever admitted.As Jace follows the trail from the frozen corpse to the hidden sword, he uncovers a conspiracy involving the Sun-Sect, the surviving remnants of the Silver Crest, and the mysterious power known as breath. The truth is more dangerous than any weapon: the Calamity did not end in the way history claims, and the regime that rose from its ashes may have been built on a carefully manufactured lie.With the evidence of the past in his hands and powerful enemies closing in, Jace must decide how much truth the Iron Provinces can survive.The sword hidden inside the dead man may be the key to exposing the greatest lie of the age-but wielding its secret could destroy everything Jace has ever known.A dark fantasy mystery filled with supernatural martial arts, political conspiracy, ancient orders, buried family secrets, and a reluctant investigator caught between history and the truth.

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