Ashfall Covenant

Kira Vasten stands barefoot in a chalk ring beneath a broken roof as ash drifts down like snow, knowing the smirk across from her is about to cost someone everything. The duel that should have been routine ends in blood, and when the body of a fellow recruit is found marked with a sigil no one has seen in a generation, Kira's name is the first written in The Ledger. Guildmaster Roke summons her before the high stone of the Covenant, offering her a place among the Shade Wardens, the order sworn to hunt the very secrets her family once kept. Refusal is not an option. The Pale Arbiter has awakened, and Brenn Ashwick's journal names her as the key to a door that must stay shut. Across the ashfields, Saren Kole gathers old allies and older grudges, while Dalia and Yuren Voss race to recover pages torn from the forbidden record. Thessan Vael's faction wants the Covenant preserved at any cost; Lorne Dace wants it rewritten in fire. The Crone waits at the center of it all, her bargain still unpaid. Kira must choose: protect the order that condemned her bloodline, or burn the Ledger and let the Arbiter's true name finally be spoken.