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The Veins of Ruin
Paperback
Series: The Last King's Blood, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 20 2025
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A kingdom heals too fast. The ground starts to pulse.
Six months after the Hollow's siege, Prince Alaric Vyrith expects recovery. Instead, black veins begin surfacing in stone, soil, and skin, threading through the kingdom like a living rot. People disappear. Crops die in perfect circles. Old scars burn as if something beneath the earth is learning their names.
When a team of silver-armored Ascendants is caught performing a blood rite in a fresh fissure, Alaric, Lady Seraphine Draven, Captain Lysa, Tiffany Harrow, and the scholar Philip descend into a forgotten sanctum where the walls breathe, the air hums, and the veins respond to fear like hunger. They learn the truth too late: the binding holding the Veinlord is not a seal, it is a choke, and it is slipping.
Now the kingdom is on a narrowing road toward a second calamity, one engineered, patient, and hungry enough to wait in the dark for centuries. To stop what is waking, Alaric must choose between the clean, royal solution and the one that leaves a permanent mark, on his body, on his people, and on the story his crown was built to protect.
The Veins of Ruin is dark fantasy with cosmic dread, cult violence, and relentless momentum, where salvation has a price, and the earth remembers what you tried to bury.
Inside you'll find:
- A cursed living geology horror concept with clear rules and escalating consequences
- A royal cast under siege: duty vs survival, loyalty vs panic
- Cult ritual and ancient architecture that weaponize belief and blood
- High-stakes sacrifice and an ending that opens the next door
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