A Crown of Ash and Bone: In a dying world, the only thing more dangerous than the truth is the monster bleeding to hide it.

A dying world. A buried god. A fifty-year lie that is finally cracking.

For half a century, Vespera Vale, the legendary Warden of Citadel Veth, has carried a monstrous secret. The life-saving Wellwater that sustains the last remnants of humanity is not a natural resource drawn from the deep earth. It is the blood of a dormant, pre-human entity chained beneath the salt-crusted Ashfields-a god that Vespera herself subjugated to save her people.

But the entity is waking up.

As massive, violent tr...