The King of a Kingless Kingdom
In Cairnreach, the sun is a forgotten myth. Snow never melts, the moon never sleeps, and the nobility are born missing pieces of themselves—payment for an ancient pact that reshaped the kingdom.
When the king dies, the crown should pass to his son.
Instead, a faceless ruler claims the throne. The crown does not reject him.
And the rightful heir is exiled.
Fifteen-year-old Seraphiel—one-eyed, dispossessed, and declared unworthy—is cast into the slums of a foreign land, where cruelty replaces ceremony and survival becomes education. Abandoned by his saviour and surrounded by monsters wearing human faces, he forms a pact with the Tengo, an ancient mythos that grants him terrifying powers at the cost of his sanity.
As kingdoms move toward war and forbidden rituals awaken horrors beyond the sky, Seraphiel is pulled into a council of rulers, Appellations, and inhuman powers—beings who can read fate, foresee it, or delay it.
But fate itself may be lying.
To reclaim his kingdom, Seraphiel must decide whether to challenge a crown chosen by destiny… or become something so dangerous that destiny has no choice but to yield.
A dark fantasy of political intrigue, eldritch horror, and a boy learning what it truly means to rule in a world where reality is written—and watched.
