The Quietward Chronicles Book 1: The Breaking of Authority

By Rudy Ceniceros

The Compact was never meant to fall.

For generations, it held the realm together-through law, through magic, through fear.
Now, it is breaking.

When a failed knight, a dying mage, a border scout, a haunted healer, and a scholar chasing forbidden truths are drawn together, none of them intend to change the fate of a kingdom. They are not heroes. They are not united. And they do not trust one another.

But the truth they uncover cannot be ignored.

Beneath the order of High Karsen lies something older-something bound, buried, and waiting. As political tensions rise and the ruling Compact tightens its grip, the cost of obedience grows unbearable. Each choice the five make pulls them deeper into a conflict that threatens not just the city... but the very structure holding the realm together.

And when authority demands silence, defiance becomes the only path left.

But breaking a system is far easier than surviving what comes after.

Now, as ancient forces stir and power begins to fracture, the five must decide what they stand for-before the world decides for them.

Because some things were never meant to be unbound.

And some truths will not let the world remain whole.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZQ8Y4G3
• ISBN13: 9798257298691
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"