Through The Shadow

He broke his oath to save his Commander.

Now he must break an empire to save his people.

Captain Finn never hungered for power. When the madness of King Oric left his Commander chained in a dungeon, Finn threw away his rank, stole a dying man from the executioners block, and crossed the threshold into the mortal world.

But while Coran found peace on an Ozark porch, Karrath descended into ash.

Unable to abandon the innocent to a tyrants wrath, Finn slips back through the waterfall. Operating from the dark canopies and forgotten border towns, he wages a quiet, desperate war of survival—stealing back what the crown takes, shielding the weak, and bleeding in silence.

He planned on being a ghost. He never planned on Zoey Keeton.

Stubborn, fiercely loyal, and carrying zero magic in her veins, Zoey refuses to let the captain who bled for her stepdad face an empire alone. Her arrival shatters his careful plans and drags a mortal girl straight into the crosshairs of royal vipers.

To end Orics reign of terror once and for all, the captain who only ever wanted to protect the line must do the unthinkable: claim the throne he never sought. But in a court of poison and steel, his greatest fight wont be surviving the crown—it will be keeping Zoey safe from the ashes.