A condemned soldier discovers a buried clause in his oath that turns his execution into a legal weapon — and a princess watching from the gallery realizes the same machinery that built the verdict might be turned against the men who built it.
The law is older than the throne. The oath is older than the law.
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A standalone dark medieval fantasy about engineered peace, moral calculus, and the cost of certainty. For readers who want their gods mechanical, their saints flawed, and their endings earned.
Read on AmazonC.L. Shinn writes dark fantasy about power, legitimacy, and the systems that shape — and break — civilizations. His work asks what happens when the machinery of law, oath, and institution is turned against the people it was built to serve.
He is the author of Clockwork Saints and Legitimacy Shattered, Book One of The Crownless, and is currently building an expanding universe of dark fantasy fiction.
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