On a planet where desert and sea wage eternal war, two leaders will discover their greatest enemy might not be each other.
Vaelthar is a world ravaged by storms, tempests with such devastating power that entire civilizations have evolved in their shadow.
Generations have passed since the Tideborn betrayed the Sandborn, shattering their cliffside cities and forcing the survivors into the lethal deserts. Both have powerful channelers: warriors who draw power through sacred alloys, transforming their mortal flesh into something more.
In the city of Solrath, Zahra Solrathen lives for one purpose: vengeance against the Tideborn who killed her father. As the spare heir, she spends her days training to join the Sunforged while her mother and brother manage the kingdom, forging herself into the weapon that will make the Tideborn pay. But when an assassin’s blade forces her from the battlefield to the throne, Zahra begins asking questions that the councilors and her mother refuse to answer.
Across the ocean, Captain Caspia Mare earns his command hunting pirates and Sandborn raiders through treacherous waters. But when he uncovers an organized fleet that the Navy insists cannot exist, his world begins to unravel. Even as Caspia presents proof, his commanders cling to old enemies rather than acknowledge new ones—and they’re willing to sacrifice anyone who contradicts their version of the truth.
Unknown to each other, they face an impossible choice: stay loyal to nations built on deception, or risk everything to expose the truth. They both race toward the same revelation—that the actual war is coming, and their peoples’ willful blindness may destroy them all.
Fractured Dunes begins an epic fantasy series of political intrigue, awakening power, and is for readers who love intricate world-building and systematic magic systems.