New Cycle: volume 4 - Couverture souple

Lewotsky, Heeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798271570063

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

The road has carried Vyx and Talos through ruins, living cities, ancient machines, and forgotten kingdoms, but the next path brings them into the heart of human power on New Edin, where old blood, buried Vaults, and imperial ambition coil beneath the beauty of civilization.

In the desert empire of Zartania, Emperor Sung Lao welcomes the silver-staffed wanderer and his sharp-tongued companion as honored guests, but beneath the palace, an ancient Vault begins to wake. As Princess Lian’s royal court prepares for a political marriage, betrayal moves quietly through silk halls and perfumed gardens. Korva’s influence reaches into the empire through hidden machines, a false prince, and the emperor’s own brothers, forcing Vyx and Talos into a battle of court intrigue, old-world technology, and loyalty tested under the weight of a kingdom’s future.

Their journey then darkens at the Black Citadel, where a cruel lord has trapped souls inside mechanical bodies and condemned them to endless labor. What first appears to be another ruined stronghold becomes something far worse: a city of the living imprisoned inside metal, a monument to power without mercy, and another sign that Korva is gathering monsters, tyrants, and broken remnants into her growing war.

From there, the road leads to Rileen, the ruined dream of humanity’s first great age on Edin. There, Vyx and Talos meet Norla, a leadflinger of the Sisterhood and descendant of Lux herself, carrying weapons, stories, and bloodline memories tied to the world before the blackout. As old myths become living truth, Rileen’s survivors must decide whether their broken city will remain a graveyard of lost history or rise again as a promise worth defending.

New Cycle Volume 4 is a sweeping sci-fantasy journey of royal betrayal, haunted machines, ancient human legacy, and the long shadow of Korva’s war, following Vyx and Talos as they move ever closer to the larger alliances that will decide the fate of New Edin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798271570063
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 373
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