The story
Not all of them will make it home
Shen carries a mark he doesn’t understand: a dark eye inked on the back of his neck, unnervingly like symbols found in places of worship and slaughter alike. He keeps it hidden. He keeps everything hidden, even from himself.
When a chance meeting in the port city of Tidehold throws him together with a silver-tongued rogue, a grief-haunted pyromancer, and a ranger whose silence speaks louder than most people’s words, Shen expects nothing more than a few shared contracts and a warm inn. But Tidehold’s Guildmaster has vanished, the city’s gifted are disappearing, and the trail leads from the forests north of the city to a golden ship bound for the greatest city in the world: a ship that was never meant to reach port.
Out on the Sunfall Sea, something old is waiting. It has been harvesting the magically gifted, corrupting ancient powers, and moving pieces across continents for longer than anyone remembers.
To find the truth, they’ll have to trust each other. To survive it, they’ll have to become something none of them expected.
A family.
Not all of them will make it home.
