At his mother’s execution, Easton Beck refuses to kill her. Stripped of his name and trapped in another’s body, he’s forced onto the Sovereign’s Road—a gauntlet of trials where losing means death, and winning means becoming what he hates most.
At the cusp of WW I, through letters, telegrams, newspaper clippings, and diaries the story of an ancient evil rebirthing into the world unfolds. As Mina Harker approaches her "Silent Passage," she and her rapidly maturing son transition . . .
Flintlock epic fantasy that’s a bit dark without going all grimdark. A condemned witch and a traumatized soldier on the run refuse to become the pawns of dead gods who want to murder their parents and a living sword with dreams of genocide.