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The Quickening: When Order Breaks Down
Paperback
Series: Chaos and Order, Book 1
Publisher Price: $21.99
ISBN13: 9781738390069
Publisher: Dbw Publishing
Published: Feb 18 2026
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For three centuries, the Dominion's towers have held the world's magic in check - measured, controlled, silenced. The land beneath them turns grey. The birds stop singing. And the people closest to the towers have begun to forget there was ever anything to forget.
Now the cracks are spreading. The Quickening has begun, and once certain doors open, they don't close again.
A boy with strength he can't explain. A younger boy whose silence carries a power no one has seen before. A princess carrying a weapon in her blood that could save her kingdom or destroy it. Hunted across a fractured continent, they must reach allies who haven't spoken to the outside world in generations - before the Dominion's most dangerous hunter reaches them first.
The Quickening is the first book in the Chaos and Order trilogy-an epic fantasy where magic is infrastructure, not spectacle, and power always comes with a price. If you've ever wanted a fantasy world real enough to miss when you leave, The Quickening was written for you.
For readers who love the momentum of Raymond E. Feist, the atmospheric dread of Terry Brooks, and the political intimacy of Robin Hobb and Brian Staveley.
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