The Drowning Province

The continent is at war, and the Blades are its deadliest weapon. Jay Rosberg was trained from childhood to become one of them. Raised within a secretive academy that forges elite operatives, she learned to kill, deceive, and survive long before she ever understood the cost of those skills. Among the most gifted of her generation, Jay became a Wraith, the rarest and most feared class among the Blades.
But when the Breolum Empire invades her homeland and the mysterious Taral Order rises to power, the war becomes more than a distant conflict. Cities fall, armies march across the continent, and the fragile balance between nations begins to collapse. Driven by vengeance and haunted by the past, Jay leads a small group of operatives into the heart of the growing chaos. Each of them carries a different specialty shaped by the academy: a Phantom who moves unseen through the shadows, a Siren who manipulates minds as easily as blades, an Oracle who sees patterns others cannot, and a Changeling capable of becoming anyone.
Together they navigate battlefields, political intrigue, and enemies who seem to be several steps ahead. But revenge has a cost. As the Taral Order tightens its grip on the continent and the war spreads into every corner of their world, Jay must confront a dangerous truth. The path she has chosen may lead her exactly where she wants to go, but it may also destroy everything that remains of the person she once was.
In a world where loyalty is fragile and power is bought with blood, the line between justice and vengeance grows thinner with every battle. And the closer Jay comes to her enemy, the more she begins to wonder whether the war will end with victory or with nothing left worth saving.