The Undying Crown

THE UNDYING CROWN Book One of the seriesThe night his village burned, Rowan Vane was ten years old, hidden beneath a floorboard, close enough to hear his family die and too small to do anything but stay silent. He walked away from the ashes with nothing but his father’s knife and a promise to himself he wouldn’t understand the true cost of for another fifteen years.Sold into slavery. Forced into an underground fighting pit where the strongest survive and the rest don’t. Rowan discovers he’s not just good at violence - he needs it, the way some men need air. Freedom, when it finally comes, doesn’t change that. It only gives him somewhere new to point it.He builds a family out of the unlikeliest company: a seven-foot satyr druid who trusts roots more than people, a dwarf too simple-hearted and too stubborn to ever leave a friend behind, a paladin chasing a calling he can’t yet name, and two orphaned children who will grow into the reasons he finally has something worth fighting for instead of just something to kill.But the thrill of the kill has a price, and an ancient evil - a king who died in betrayal six centuries ago and never stopped waiting to come back - is about to make Rowan pay every last coin of it.A story about revenge, found family, and exactly how much a man will sacrifice for the people he loves - brutal, bloody, and unflinching all the way to its final page.If you like your fantasy grim, your monsters unforgettable, and your found families worth bleeding for - welcome to Aldenmere. You won’t want to leave.