The Bone Kings were supposed to be gone—erased, cursed, buried so deep even their shadows couldn’t crawl free. But bones don’t stay silent forever. Kael Varic is the last heir, a man born with death in his veins and silence in his eyes. He doesn’t want peace. He doesn’t want mercy. He wants the throne his father bled for—the throne that still whispers his name. The clans hunt him. The crown fears him. His enemies call him a monster. Maybe they’re right. Because every time Kael calls the dead to rise, the throne pulls him closer. Every choice cuts away a piece of what makes him human. But in Calvryn, humanity doesn’t win wars. Monsters do. And Kael Varic was never meant to be anything else.