BoundBorn: The Pale Flame: What You Become Is Not What You Were Promised

By R.A. Maxwell

Born to the Boundborn - the peasant class that has served, labored, and died for a world that never asked their names - Kairen claws his way from a failing farmstead to the training yards of Vaeldur's knightly orders. Every step costs him. The system he fights to enter was built to keep people like him out.

But the higher he rises, the more he sees: the institution he idolized serves a throne built on calculation, a faith built on suppression, and a kingdom whose great houses are moving toward open war. The oath he swore, if he is ever allowed to swear it, may bind him to something he no longer recognizes.

And beneath all of it - beneath the class war, the political fractures, the maneuvering of noble factions - something older is happening. The world is becoming less itself. Strange things move in places no one names. The boundaries that hold reality together are wearing thin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQP2FTVZ
• ISBN13: 9798249996840
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"