In the world of Thea, where a single name written in a cursed book can seal a person''''s fate, Thalen Morris once served as the Emperor’s silent hand of death. But the calligrapher fled his role—and the blood it demanded—taking the book with him. Now hunted by knights, magicians, and ghosts of the past, Thalen hides in a crumbling tower at the edge of the world, struggling to survive one breath at a time.