Book One is free to read, always. The saga continues across the trilogy of trilogies — fair-priced ebooks and at-cost print, sold directly, no gatekeepers.
Estaria’s life in Appledale is a simple, sunlit thing — the orchards, his family, the warm routine of a baker’s apprentice who has never wanted for more. Then he reads a single word he cannot place and cannot forget: Streacresh. The search for its meaning will cost him the only world he has ever known, and draw him deep into the forests of western Gaiadra, where a long-buried truth is waiting. But to reach it, Estaria must first face the echoes of his own past.
The newly bound Ascendant must learn to wield the power — and mistakes can be catastrophic. With the help of a dragon hatchling and a studious monk, Estaria makes his way north to the slopes of the great volcano. But what awaits him below might just rock the foundations of Terrindral forever.
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