THE OBSIDIAN ATLAS
His kingdom was stolen. His memories were erased. But the one thing they could never destroy was his blood.
Ten-year-old Kaelen Veyrathian was born a prince — but on the night his kingdom falls, he becomes something far more dangerous: the last living key to a power that could reshape the world.
His father's oldest friend betrays the crown from the inside. The Nehrim tear through the walls. And somewhere beneath the ruined throne lies the Obsidian Atlas — a book that has driven kings, monsters, and entire bloodlines to slaughter each other for centuries, and never once revealed why.
To keep it out of enemy hands, King Corvin does the one thing no enemy will ever think to look for.
He hides it somewhere death itself cannot follow.
Then he erases his son's memories, and sends him away with no name, no crown, and no idea what he's the last living piece of.
Here's the part no one warns the hunters about:
The Atlas is still findable. Which means it's still worth dying for. Patriarchs, warlords, and things that don't call themselves human are already racing toward the same unmarked grave — and every single one of them will fail before Kaelen even remembers his own name.
Years later, a boy who believes he's ordinary starts noticing the cracks. A flinch at bells he's never consciously heard. A guardian who trains him like a weapon and refuses to say why. A past-shaped hole where his childhood should be.
Then he meets her.
She's hiding under a stolen name too — from the very family Kaelen has spent his whole forgotten life learning to hate. She doesn't want their power. She wants out, same as he does. Which means falling for her is the one thing more dangerous than remembering who he used to be.
Because somewhere, someone still remembers everything that happened that night. And the moment Kaelen starts asking questions, the world starts hunting him back.
Who was he, before they took his memories? What did his father really give up to hide the Atlas? And when revenge is the only thing raising you — what does it turn you into?
The kingdom is dead. The heir has forgotten. The book is still hiding.
But the hunt for it has already begun — and this time, the last Veyrathian is in the race too.
