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The Bone Beneath the Crown
Paperback
Series: Waykindred, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 29 2026
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.18
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Crownlands were built upon the bodies of the Vowed Seven-colossal beings whose dying promises still hold roads, walls, and kingdoms together.
Now something is moving inside their bones.
Rovan Kest belongs to the Waykindred, a feared road company that takes in those no kingdom wants and binds them through chosen promises rather than blood. When a mining settlement is sealed with hundreds of workers trapped below, Rovan rescues seventeen-year-old Jorin Ash and discovers creatures formed from black marrow, stolen memories, and the voices of the dead.
The crown calls the survivors liars. The Waykindred become fugitives.
Crown Princess Brenna Tervane soon discovers why. Her father has opened a forbidden passage beneath the capital, believing the ancient power buried there can save his failing kingdom. Instead, he has awakened Saevrak, the architect of a dead empire that does not conquer by killing. It preserves people by remaking them into obedient pieces of a single, perfect design.
As the corruption spreads, Rovan, Brenna, Jorin, and the wounded members of the Waykindred must cross a collapsing realm, unite peoples who have every reason to despise the crown, and descend into the bones beneath Avarn.
Their weapons are ordinary steel, imperfect vows, and the belief that no life, memory, or sacrifice can ever be owned.
Because the enemy does not want them dead.
It wants them useful forever.
The Bone Beneath the Crown is a complete epic fantasy novel of monstrous battles, costly magic, political betrayal, and the families people choose when blood and kingdoms fail them. It is Book One of the Waykindred series.
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