Inside the Veil

The Veil is failing.

Seren Vael has crossed into it before. Twice, as a death. This time she goes in on purpose, carrying the only property the Veil has ever recognized, and what she finds on the inside is not what anyone on the living side has ever mapped.

The Veil is not a membrane.

It is a structure. Built by someone. Maintained by someone. And for two hundred years, maintained by one man alone, because the succession that was supposed to relieve him broke, and no one came, and he held it anyway.

His name is Aldric Vael.

He has been waiting for her specifically.

He has the complete account of what the restructuring requires, what it costs, and the one piece of information no one on the living side has ever had. The way to finish it without staying forever. The ending the architect built into the structure from the beginning, before the war, before the failing, before two hundred years of one man holding something that was never meant to be held alone.

But the ending requires two.

And the second one is outside, twelve feet from the membrane, counting her pulse through the light.

Inside the Veil is Book Thirteen of The Veilborn War Series. The mechanism is resolved. The net is restored. The question of coming back has an answer.

If you have been reading since Book One, this is the book you have been waiting for.

Start with Book One: The Veilborn War Series begins with The Mercenary Who Came Back.