The Wound Shattering

Khyan Darkwinter remembers only his name when he wakes on a desolate, petrified shore – no past, no bearings, and no reason why a drake-thing wreathed in bloodlight hunts him through a forest where even the wind dares not speak. The world is shattered, hollowed by ancient forces, and beneath the stone, something still pulses with forgotten power.

Driven by instinct and the will to survive, Khyan flees death at the claws of the monstrous predator – only to be saved by Erynn, a woman with eyes like stormlight, who speaks in half-truths and wields power unlike anything he’s ever seen. As fragments of memory stir and something strange begins to wake within him, Khyan realises his arrival in this dying world was no accident.

Something sleeps beneath the earth. In the roots of the forest. In the runes carved into ancient stone. In the hunger of beasts bound by lost rites. And Khyan, who remembers nothing, and bears a name that feels borrowed, might be the key to awakening it all.