Deceit and Fire (Softcover)

A traitor ascends. A blade lies broken. The war for Veridia begins.

Graystone is lost. Marcus Reed rules in chains and silence, Leveraging David Reese to do the dirty work. Marcus is wearing the mask of a savior while tightening the grip of tyranny. The draconic dagger, their one true hope, lies in pieces, and the world itself bleeds as the Covenant’s ritual to end all things draws near.

Blacksmith Thomas Carter and healer Eliza Bennett must undertake an impossible quest: to journey into ancient lands and seek the mythical Dragon’s Forge, where only legend says a weapon of dragons can be reforged. Every step brings new dangers, and with the blade shattered, Thomas’s faith in himself may break before the steel is whole again.

Meanwhile, in the shadowed streets of Graystone, resistance stirs. Captain Sarah leads a covert war against Reed’s enforcers, aided by the ingenious tinkerer Oliver. But Marcus is no ordinary tyrant, his cold designs turn their home into a laboratory of fear, and every move the resistance makes plays into his vision of a perfectly silent world.

In the second chapter of A Dragon’s Concern, battles ignite on two fronts: a desperate quest in the mountains and a rebellion in the streets. Both races hurtle toward the Covenant’s world-ending ritual, and every failure edges the realm closer to fire and deceit.