The Bone King's Curse

By Philip Stengel

Vyrendor is a kingdom where even the dead are taxed.

Across its wastelands, villages surrender bones to the Bone King's tithe, the hungry live under the threat of armored enforcers, and the dead rise again as thralls bound to a curse no one fully understands. Kael Draven has spent years surviving this broken land one road at a time, selling his sword where he must and avoiding causes that get men killed for nothing.

Then he intervenes.

When Kael steps into a village tithe and kills the Bone King's enforcers to save the innocent, he becomes a marked man. Forced into flight, he is drawn into a growing rebellion led by survivors, fighters, and a relentless scholar named Sylra Veyne, who believes the rune-marked blade at his side is not merely a weapon, but a relic tied to the curse itself.

As Kael and his allies raid caravans, survive ambushes, and tear old knowledge from grave fields, ruined citadels, and forbidden records, the truth becomes more dangerous than the war. The Bone King is not the source of Vyrendor's nightmare, but its vessel. The curse reaches deeper than the throne. The sword is bound to bloodline as well as power. And breaking what has poisoned the kingdom may demand more than victory in battle.

It may demand sacrifice.

The Bone King's Curse is a dark epic fantasy about rebellion, ancient magic, blood-bound destiny, and the terrible cost of standing against a kingdom built on death.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F7FTLJR7
• ISBN13: 9798282312461
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"