by acbishkey
Bennet Thalassere has spent his whole life in his brother's shadow. His younger brother carries a god. His younger brother transforms into something the size of a cathedral and wins wars. Bennet rides a horse and tries to be useful. During a battle, Bennet sees an opening and leads his cavalry toward it. He wakes up in a cell beneath his family's keep. No one will tell him why. No one will look him in the eye. His father stands in the doorway like a man attending a funeral that hasn't happened yet. A stranger with ashy hands and a habit of talking to thin air breaks him out before dawn. The stranger's name is Sydney. He says things about the world that cannot possibly be true. Except they are. Everything Bennet was raised to believe about the wars, about the gods, about his brother, about the system that holds civilization together is wrong. Not the kind of wrong that can be fixed. The system was designed to be perfect, and Bennet has just discovered he exists outside that perfection. He always has. He just didn't know it. Now the two of them are running, and all seven nations are looking for them. OCCLUDED is a multi-POV epic fantasy. Book 1 is a heist. The series is a revolution. Nine books. Seven nations. The question isn't whether the system can be broken. It's what the world will look like if it does?
