Ashes of Avaran

By Vincent Amador Espinoza II

Ashes of Avaran

An Epic of Memory, Mercy, and the Unwritten World

In a land scorched by law and silenced by order, the Grove of Avaran stands as the last remnant of a world that once dared to remember. For generations, the Clocks have ruled-not with swords, but with certainty-dividing life into ticking seconds and severed histories. Beneath their measured tyranny, truth is exiled, emotion is weakness, and even mercy is outlawed.

But when Ilai, a quiet orphan with questions instead of answers, stumbles into the Grove's hollow heart, something ancient stirs. He is no warrior. He holds no legacy. And yet he listens-to trees, to silence, to stories long forbidden. Alongside Vael, a disgraced soldier trying to unlearn the blade, and The Record, a living monument haunted by memory, Ilai dares to ignite something dangerous:

Hope.

As buried myths awaken and the Unsung return-those cast from memory and time-Avaran teeters on the edge of a new beginning or final collapse. Ilai must navigate a world where the greatest threat is not war, but forgetting. Where healing means rupture. And where to remember is to rebel.

In a time when truth has been caged and the past burned to ash, the future must be written in the language of mercy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FK97JDN4
• ISBN13: 9798294349578
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"