The Dermanenlion Saga

Release Date: April 14th, 2026

In the long shadow of Dermanenlion, the past does not stay buried.

As Adisha Corvin mourns her father, she discovers something that will change her fate forever: among her own people – the Cadalari, condemned as outcasts and heretics – her gifts, once used to condemn her, are not a curse, but a calling. Encouraged to master what she once feared, Adisha begins to imagine a life defined not by survival, but by choice. Esmund Garrett watches her grow from the margins of his ancient books, drawn ever closer to the one thing immortality could never grant him: love.

But when Adisha returns to the village of Wash seeking reunion, she finds only heartbreak, and in her grief makes a choice that binds her irrevocably to Esmund… and drives her to flee from him just as quickly.

Her flight leads her deep into the forgotten bones of Fourth World, where a sealed government bunker hides a shocking secret: survivors of Fourth World, preserved in cryostasis, for whom the end of civilization was not millennia ago, but only weeks past.  As shock, guilt, trauma, and disbelief tear at their bruised souls, one man in particular struggles to carry the unbearable weight of a dead nation on his shoulders.

With alliances shifting and long-dormant powers stirring, Esmund and Adisha are forced to confront a future neither of them understands, and a past that refuses to remain silent. The world they know is changing, and the reckoning it brings will demand more than loyalty, love, or survival.

It will demand truth.