Ashes Before Dawn

In a world where light is currency and darkness is death, Delacroix Teorista Del Gallian was born cursed—his blackened eyes a mark of the Shadeborn, the exiled and the damned. Yet against all odds, he rose to become aKnight of the Vanguard Legion, a soldier of the empire sworn to crown and kingdom.

But war is never clean. And neither is survival.

What should have been a routine mission in the desert town ofAl-Mirajbecame something else entirely. Orders were given. Lies were told. And by the time the fires burned out, the only truth left was the one written in blood.

The Kingdom needed a villain. The world needed a name to curse.

They chose him.

Now, years later, the embers of that betrayal refuse to die.The Kingdom fractures. The Inquisition tightens its grip. The Obsidian Court moves unseen, pulling strings in the dark.And somewhere in the cracks of a dying empire, a ghost stirs.

Because ghosts do not die easily.