
by Slovian
Blackbridge is the kind of town that looks solid from a distance. A great stone bridge. Toll towers. Shrine bells. Noble walls on the hill. Up close, it’s mud, debt, hunger, bad bargains, and too many people pretending they still control what’s happening. When something goes wrong on the roads beyond the marsh, the trouble does what all trouble eventually does in Blackbridge: It comes to the bridge. Now a hard-bitten hunter, a young officer, a dangerous noblewoman, and a temple man who would rather manage the truth than trust it are all being pulled into the same unraveling city. Blackbridge wants order.Its rulers want control.Its poor want to survive.And something old is starting to stir in the cracks human hands made first. The Bells of Blackbridge is a grim, character-driven dark fantasy about corruption, panic, power, and the kind of city that can survive almost anything except the truth arriving all at once. Follow on: The Bells of Blackbridge
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