Scarlet Vow: The Fall and the Flame

The world wasn't always broken. Once, it balanced on a knife's edge of power—twelve mystical stones, split among four continents, each one wielded by a master who'd spent a lifetime learning not to destroy everything around them. The Trinity Relics were miracles. The Trinity Relics were curses. They were power given form, and they demanded a terrible price. Light didn't know any of this when his parents were murdered by one of those cursed stones. He was seven years old, sitting in a kindergarten classroom, holding a smooth pebble his father had given him. His mother was being consumed by emerald flame in a temple a thousand miles away. His father was already dead. By the time Light discovers the truth about his parents' death, it's too late. The stone that killed them has chosen him as their successor—and it's not asking permission. Now, with three cursed relics orbiting him like a second skin, Light has to navigate a world that wants him dead, magic that rewrites the rules of reality, and the crushing weight of power that destroys everyone who tries to wield it. He's hunted by the people who created the stones. He's hunted by other bearers who want what he has. And most terrifying of all—he's beginning to understand that the world is far more complex, and far more fragile, than he ever imagined. The Gate of Genesis waits for those who can unite all twelve stones. But no one has ever survived trying.