R.B. Glynn

The Magisters claim their cruelty keeps Rosk alive.

Anya Velmira knows the truth. Their rule feeds on fear, blood, and lies.

Once a princess, now a dispossessed rebel, Anya leads an army of farmers, convicts, and outcasts against an empire that refuses to die. Every victory is paid for in blood. Every loss cuts deeper into a land already drowning in its own wounds. They call her their hope, but hope is a fragile thing in a world built on ash.
Tempered by suffering and bound by desperation, Anya and her allies fight through ruin and betrayal, where courage rots into cruelty, mercy becomes weakness, and freedom begins to taste like vengeance.
But the Magisters’ tyranny is only the beginning. Beneath the war, something ancient stirs, a shadow that hungers for the ruin of all things.
As Rosk fractures and the dead whisper through its desolate ruins, Anya must decide what she is willing to destroy to break the last chains of the Magisters’ rule...and whether a world born of fire and blood deserves to survive at all.

For readers who crave dark, character-driven fantasy filled with ruin, rebellion, and the terrible cost of freedom.