Moonwake

Before the world was remade-it trembled.When crimson lines ignite across Liorielle's skin in a smoke-stained tavern, the city of Moonwake shudders. The Mark has chosen-breaking centuries of tradition, shattering the Protocol's iron laws, and awakening a power older than the city itself.Drawn into the fracture are three men bound by old oaths and older wounds: Vaelin, the Unsilenced leader who sees the Mark as truth the city tried to bury; Eryndor, a Protocol enforcer torn between duty and dread; and Cassian, the archivist who remembers what Moonwake has spent generations trying to forget.As the red moon rises and ancient powers stir, loyalties unravel, history repeats, and the city tilts toward a reckoning long delayed. Liorielle is no chosen hero. She is the spark, the fracture point, the one the Mark has claimed-and every faction wants to shape her fate before the Mark decides to speak again.This is not a tale of destiny. It is a record of thresholds crossed too late. And the world that trembles in their wake.