Relics of the Shattered Veil: The Sunforged Shard
Book One of the Relics Trilogy

When five strangers are summoned to a secluded estate by a noble known for secrets and silver, they expect a well-paying job—nothing more. Instead, they find themselves chosen for a task that feels more like fate than fortune: retrieve a lost artifact buried deep in the Scorched Expanse, a desert too ancient for maps and too quiet to be empty.

Each of them carries something they'd rather forget. A soldier without a cause. A bard chasing truth. A guide who swore never to return. A rogue with too many names. A cleric who listens for things no one else hears.

The desert doesn't just test them. It remembers them. And the deeper they go, the more it reveals: visions, ruins, and a history that never truly died.

What waits beneath the sand isn't just an artifact. It's a fragment of something broken. Something buried for a reason.

And some things are meant to stay buried.

For readers who love epic quests, ancient mysteries, reluctant heroes, and stories where the world itself feels alive, Relics of the Shattered Veil is the first step into a realm where memory is dangerous—and what you carry matters more than what you fight.