Shadows of the Enclave (The Veilborn Cycle Book 1)

Alex Kade has spent his whole life being ordinary.He was never given a choice.A programmer in a rain-soaked Amsterdam flat, Alex has learnt to ignore the dreams, the shadows that watch from the edge of sight, and the impossible night his code rearranged itself into symbols too old to belong on any screen. But something beyond the Veil has stopped waiting, and the quiet life built around him begins to come apart.Alex does not know what sleeps in his blood. He does not know why his memories feel locked behind doors he was never allowed to open. And he does not know that an ancient order of dark sorcery has been patient enough to stand in the shadows of his life for years, waiting for the moment he would finally wake.Drawn across the Veil into the Shattered Realms with his three oldest friends, Alex finds a world of mages, broken histories, old wars, and a Circle preparing for a conflict it does not yet understand. There he meets a swordswoman with secrets of her own, enemies who know his name before he does, and a power that may save the realms or make him the weapon the darkness has always intended him to become.As the Enclave's armies gather and something ancient feeds on slaughter itself, Alex must learn who he is, who he can trust, and what his family's gift truly costs.Because the Enclave is already closer than any of them know.Book One of The Veilborn Cycle. An epic fantasy of hidden realms, ancient bloodlines, betrayal, magic, and the war for the fate of fifteen worlds. Read more