The Thorn of Ravenmere

A cursed blade stirs beneath Ravenmere, and the dead refuse to stay buried. When Lady Isolde Varrin receives a summons to the ruined fortress of Ashenholt, she finds more than crumbling stone and whispered legend, she finds the Thornblade awakening after three hundred years of silence, called forth by a parasitic queen whose soul has been clinging to the bloodline of House Varrin since the Sundering Wars. As Lady Morgaine Varrin claws her way toward full possession, Isolde is forced into an uneasy alliance with Kael Thornehart, an exiled knight whose honor was stripped away by the very crown now threatened by ancient evil. Together they must navigate haunted moors, salt marshes, and the riddling truths of the Blind Oracle, while evading the relentless War-Hound Sorrow and the stone-faced sentinel that guards Ravenmere's deepest secret. The Ash Warden offers cryptic guidance, but his warnings may be too late: every note of the Bone-Song Siren pulls Morgaine closer to breaking free, and Revenant Knights patrol the corridors once held by Isolde's ancestors. Old Brynja Stonevein speaks of a prophecy that binds the Thornehart and Varrin houses in blood, and Captain Vesper Halcarn's loyalty shifts like the marsh fog. As Queen Maren Thornehart is revealed in terrible truth and Brother Fen's monks fall to the spreading curse, Isolde must decide whether to wield her family's dark inheritance or sever it forever. To claim the Thornblade is to invite damnation; to destroy it is to lose the only weapon that can end her ancestor's reign of vengeance.