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The Warden's Debt: A Dark Fantasy of Secrets, Trust, and an Unpaid Magical Debt
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 19 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Corin Vale has spent nineteen years serving the ward-line, learning to hear the stones that protect the kingdom from the silence beyond them. He trusts the warden who raised him, believes he knows the rules of the Order, and has never questioned the story of where he came from.
Then Stone Forty-One begins to sing the wrong note.
What starts as a strange disturbance soon reveals something far more dangerous. Villages are falling silent, the ancient Hush is spreading, and something beyond the ward-line seems to know Corin by name. As Corin and a small team venture into the forbidden territory, the people he trusts begin revealing secrets of their own.
His mentor knows more than he has admitted. His closest friend has been watching him. A mysterious guide carries secrets from the border. And somewhere beyond the broken ward-stones lies an ancient power connected to a debt that has been growing for generations.
To survive, Corin will have to decide what matters more: obedience, secrecy, or trust.
Because some debts cannot be paid by one person alone.
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