The Iron Reluctance
Marek Durren wants nothing more than the steady ring of his hammer and the safe lives of Sera Thornwall's children in the village he calls home. But the morning a wounded stranger
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progression books
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- The first 20% of every book, rounded up, so at least one chapter. Across this shelf that is about 4 chapters per book, and every book here is 20 chapters long.
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- The free sample ends at the paywall. Dracon Omni unlocks every chapter of every book on the shelf, including the ones we give away, and keeps them on your devices.
- What kinds of progression books are on this shelf?
- The shelf holds 8 books, mostly fantasy. Every one is tagged progression, so you can narrow further from the related shelves below.
progression on the shelf
The Ashen Throne of Vorrath
The fens have swallowed the kingdom whole, and the dead refuse to stay buried. Magistrate Thessen Veyne is dispatched into the brackish ruins of a drowned counting house to retriev
The Ash Crown Cycle
For sixty-three days, Sigurd Vrell has shoveled the dead into the lime pits of a kingdom rotting from the inside out. The realm has no rightful ruler, only the Ash King , a corpse
The Ember of Aldermarsh
Beneath the salt-lamp glow of his family's cellar, Wren Tarrow charts a world the academy would rather keep buried. When a junior student turns up murdered and his older sister Eda
The Bastard of Ashfen
In the ash-choked city of Ashfen, gravedigger Porter Shadow splits a skull with his spade and finds something that should not be there: a summons stamped in black wax, bearing the
The Ashbound Crown
Smoke stung her eyes before the heat found her skin, and by morning Wren Calloway's little brother was dead, and whispering someone else's name. When the Council of Crowns rides in
The Ash Beneath Her Name
The tavern stank of tallow smoke and old grief, and Elira Vesper had let grief become her only companion. Three cups deep at the Crooked Antler, with Hargun's Wake lanterns gatheri
The Bone Gauntlet
Taren Volk comes over the last rise into Oathfield expecting the village of his childhood, the stones he and his brother Eamon set as boys still marking the lane. The forest has bl