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War of Light & Shadow
Paperback
Series: The Shattering Chronicles, Book 2
Publisher: Jennifer Poliwoda
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a kingdom where Light is law and Shadow is treason, truth is a story written in fire.
Sylvaine Nox was once a scholar of forbidden myths at the Umbraxis Academy, raised in a society that worships sacred flame and condemns questions as heresy. When the Light she served turns its purging fire upon her, Sylvaine is left broken and discarded, rescued only by a ghost from her past.
Lysander, once the boy she loved beneath an ancient forest's boughs, is now the True King of Velmourn and the reluctant leader of Veritas, a secret resistance hidden deep within the Blackridge Mountains.
As Sylvaine recovers in Umbriel's stone heart, the world she thought she understood begins to fracture. Shadow is not the evil she was taught to fear, and history is not the truth she was given. Worse, she discovers she is not what she seems. An ancient prophecy stirs, one deliberately buried, foretelling a child not chosen by gods, but made necessary by their failures.
When the god of Light himself descends to claim absolute dominion, the land begins to wither beneath his suffocating radiance. At the same time, a volatile, ancient magic awakens within Sylvaine, one that does not obey divine law, and cannot be burned away.
In a war where stories are erased and truths are buried in stone, Sylvaine must choose: remain a casualty of divine cruelty, or embrace a fate that bridges Light, Shadow, and the living world itself.
War of Light & Shadow is a high-stakes epic fantasy about the cost of balance and the enduring power of connection, because when gods grow cruel, one orphan must become the rule, or let the world burn.
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