The Road of Borrowed Faces: The Thread That Would Not Break

By Asif Shah

A thousand years is long enough for a war to end, an empire to rot, and a man to become a rumor. Kasim wakes into a world that has forgotten the order he served, the coast he was born on, and the war he thought he had died fighting. Everyone he loved is gone.
Except they are not. Reborn, scattered, and wearing faces that have never met him, his family is alive somewhere in this ruined age, and he can feel them, faint as a pulse, if he knows how to listen.
Finding them means crossing a dying empire on the edge of civil war, gathering allies who owe him nothing and trust him less. A bitter engineer who forges the one metal that can wound the impossible. A woman who speaks for the dead. Twins bound to him by blood they did not choose to spill. A knight running from an order he can no longer obey.
And something is unraveling the world itself, wound by wound, spreading upward from somewhere far below the last emperor's vaults: a hunger that started the day Kasim broke his own prison, and has been growing patient ever since.
The Road of Borrowed Faces is the fourth volume of The Thread That Would Not Break. The story of a weapon relearning how to be a person, one stranger, one grave, and one unbearable reunion at a time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8J1YFMZ
• ISBN13: 9798186766575
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"