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The Reaching Blade: The Thread That Would Not Break
Paperback
Series: The Thread That Would Not Break, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798186512141
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Kasim was taught to count his breaths before he was taught to read. One, and one, and one: the discipline that keeps a Hashashin's hand steady, and his fear silent. For seventeen years it has never failed him.
It fails him at Hold Vael.
The job should have been simple. A lord who sold his own household to something that does not deal in gold. A debt that needs collecting before dawn. But the house on the cliff is already empty when Kasim's family arrives, and whatever emptied it is still there: patient, insectile, and utterly without mercy.
It fails him at Hold Vael.
The job should have been simple. A lord who sold his own household to something that does not deal in gold. A debt that needs collecting before dawn. But the house on the cliff is already empty when Kasim's family arrives, and whatever emptied it is still there: patient, insectile, and utterly without mercy.
By morning, the coast will remember this night in whispers for a hundred years. Whoever survives it will not be the man he was when the sun went down.
Something ancient wants Kasim. Not his death. His obedience. And it is willing to take everyone he loves, one silence at a time, to get it.
The Reaching Blade opens The Thread That Would Not Break, a seven-volume epic about brotherhood, the price fate charges for a single act of defiance, and a man who learns, too late to stop it and too stubborn to accept it, that some debts outlive the living.
Something ancient wants Kasim. Not his death. His obedience. And it is willing to take everyone he loves, one silence at a time, to get it.
The Reaching Blade opens The Thread That Would Not Break, a seven-volume epic about brotherhood, the price fate charges for a single act of defiance, and a man who learns, too late to stop it and too stubborn to accept it, that some debts outlive the living.
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