Birth of Chaos

On the first day of summer, a butcher hunts a street urchin through the sun-scorched streets of Ashcroft. By nightfall, one of them is dead—and the Empire of Yolak begins to crack.

Across a continent on the edge of collapse, lives once kept apart are drawn into the same gathering storm.

Callahan, a boy marked by a past he can't fully remember, is hurled into flight after defending himself from a man who believed him a murderer. His survival becomes the first stitch in a tapestry far larger th...