Epic Fantasy · Book
The Graveyard Beneath the Ashes
By Maximus Wielder
The last time Eadwig answered an ancient ward, it took the memory of his mother’s voice. Now the runes are calling him east. Eadwig makes his living scavenging ruins on the Obsidian Plains. He knows how to test a crumbling wall before stepping through it, and he can read the runes most people pass without a second glance. In a roofless ruin, he finds a carving of a city whose towers descend into the earth. He recognizes it immediately. In his dreams, dragons circle above those same towers. The empire teaches that its founders wiped out the dragons. But the runes point to a graveyard beyond the canyon crossings, in country no imperial map names. At its center lies a heart that holds the terms of a covenant older than the empire. The surviving inscription is cracked, and the men hunting for the graveyard see a chance to rewrite what they cannot read. Eadwig and his companions set out to learn what the empire buried. As rival forces close in, his gift may be the only way through the wards that guard the graveyard. He knows what one ward has already taken from him. He has no idea what the next will ask. The Graveyard Beneath the Ash is an epic fantasy novel in Maximus Wielder’s Longstrider Chronicles, where the remains of dragons still hold power and using magic can cost a memory you thought you’d keep forever.