Faith Unwoven. Ashes of the Injai, #0

A young scholar. A missing heretic. A truth powerful enough to unravel the world. Alben has spent his life in service to faith, order, and the sacred teachings of the Rahsu. But when a desperate orphan begs him to find her missing father, he is drawn far beyond the safety of the archives and into the haunted northern wilds, a place where the spirits grow silent, old laws hold little power, and whispers of heresy spread like rot through the trees.
What begins as a simple search soon becomes something far more dangerous. In a remote village of exiles and free-thinkers, Alben discovers that his missing man, was no ordinary fugitive. He was a seeker of forbidden truths, truths the Primes and Mavens would sooner burn than let survive. As Alben ventures deeper into the fringe alongside the enigmatic Atalan, he finds himself hunted by questions with no safe answers: Why are ancient records being erased? What lies hidden in the forbidden zones? And what monstrous force is waking beneath the world?The further he travels from the world he knows, Alben suspects that everything he has been taught is a lie.
Now, with dark powers stirring, dangerous allies gathering, and the fate of a forgotten history hanging in the balance, Alben must choose between obedience and truth; before the shadows rising at the edge of the realm consume them all.