The Turn of Ashes: Swords of Oriyon Volume One

Greystone is a kingdom waiting for bad news. King Hadrian Kinswell has returned from war wounded, weakened, and shadowed by defeat. In Solstice, the court gathers beneath the weight of his failing health, while powerful men begin to measure what may come after him. Lords whisper in council chambers, old loyalties strain across the realm, and the Crown’s enemies move carefully in the spaces grief has opened.Far from the capital, the coming storm is felt in pieces. In the Mire, Bjorn Alder watches suspicion creep through his father’s hall. In the Barrenhold, young Mattias Horne dreams of a future with Princess Lorna Kinswell while his father weighs caution over loyalty. In the North, House Blackstone waits for word from Solstice, knowing the realm may soon demand more than mourning. Across the sea and sand of Assid, exiled Thalen Poole fights to survive a life severed from the house that cast him out. And in the capital itself, Della Falswick enters court as a noble daughter, unaware that her family’s rise may come at the cost of everything around her.As messenger birds fly, roads fill, and old houses choose what they are willing to risk, Greystone edges toward a truth no one can yet speak aloud: the war abroad was only the beginning.At the Midharvest Feast, the waiting ends.The first book in the Swords of Oriyon Epic follows a kingdom in the last days before betrayal, where love, duty, ambition, and fear draw every house closer to the night that will split the realm in two. Read more