The Crumbling Wards

The city is dying. The god inside Knox promises to save it—if he sets her free.

Knox once hunted people for the Covenant. Now his former masters are hunting him—and the curse spreading through his veins makes hiding harder by the hour.

Inside his head, an imprisoned godling named Sloane offers a way out. She can stop the pain. Give him the strength to destroy the Covenant. All he has to do is set her free.

In the decaying city of Tenebra, the ancient wards are failing. With nowhere left to run, Knox strikes a bargain with a ruthless information broker and joins forces with Reeve, a blade-wielding renegade who has every reason to distrust him. Their search for answers leads to an artifact that could restore the city's defenses—or shatter them.

The Covenant wants it. Sloane wants him to use it. And every time Knox draws on her power to survive, her hold on him tightens.

He helped make Tenebra a place worth escaping. Now saving it means trusting someone else—and resisting the voice that promises him everything he's desperate enough to want.

The Crumbling Wards is a grimdark urban fantasy novella about dangerous power, compromised loyalties, and the price of redemption.

• 🖤 A cursed antihero with blood on his hands
• 🗡️ Reluctant allies and sharp-edged banter
• 🌑 An imprisoned godling whispering temptation
• 🏙️ A decaying city ruled by a corrupt magical order
• 🔥 Forbidden power with a devastating cost