by Metal pen
He survived when every other Shield fell. For twenty years, he wished he hadn’t. Alec drifts from town to town, working as hired muscle alongside a fast-talking merchant and a grumbling Glakin cook. He wants nothing more than quiet roads and jobs that don’t require him to draw steel. But when they find a butchered farmhouse and a single terrified child, Alec recognises the truth instantly. The Hurok are back.The monsters that destroyed the Shield Order—his brothers—were never truly gone. Dragged back toward the border he swore he’d never face again, Alec must confront the ghosts that broke him and protect the few people who still look to him for strength. Villages fall. Children vanish. And the enemy isn’t rebuilding by chance. They’re preparing for war. To stop them, Alec must become what he once was: The last Shield.The wall that stands in the way.Even if it kills him.
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