In the hollow world of Aether, where earth bends skyward and continents loom overhead, one young man's journey home will unleash forces that have slumbered since creation itself.
When assassins murder Jake Naserai's diplomat father in the war-torn realm of Ebison, his sheltered life shatters. Fleeing with his mother across a fractured land, Jake carries only the weight of his family's name and a burning need for Who ordered the killing? And why?
Under the gruff but caring guidance of a former captain, Jake transforms from sheltered dreamer into deadly swordsman—driven by grief, duty, and justice. His find his father's killer and reach his ancestral home of Hallowmoore. But thousands of miles of treacherous roads stand between him and home, and forces set in motion long before his birth now hunt him.
Mysterious allies offer aid at prices he doesn't yet understand. Enemies who remember what the Naserai name once meant move to stop him before he can reclaim that power. And in the ash-shrouded wastes of Veridia, something ancient stirs—something that has endured through darkened eons.
The path home will cost more than Jake can imagine. But some journeys, once begun, cannot be abandoned.
The first book in the AETHER saga, where family honour, ruthless politics, and divine power collide in a world unlike any other.