The Unsworn: The Backward Road
When the roads of the city begin walking backward, Mara must find the missing runner at their center before the route turns everyone she loves into the next open door.
The escape was supposed to be over.
It wasn't.
After the events at the laundromat, Mara Vale and the survivors are injured, exposed, and desperately trying to stay ahead of the Houses. But the danger has changed. The city itself is becoming a road-and it is beginning to hunt.
Theo's mysterious marks now pull toward impossible intersections. June's CHILD mark grows darker whenever someone tries to decide where she belongs. And the strange dinosaur that once connected them to Theo's lost childhood now carries a route-sign that burns whenever doors, hallways, and transit lines rearrange themselves.
Then comes the search for Olan Pike.
If Olan is still himself, he may know how the five remaining seals are connected. But if something else is wearing his route, it may be using every promise, debt, and instinct to protect others as a way back to Mara.
As House Truth attempts to rewrite reality, House Moth comes to collect its debts, and Alaric Sorn seeks to pull Cassian back into his control, Mara faces a terrifying question:
Can she protect the people she loves without turning protection into another form of control?
The journey takes Mara and her companions through abandoned transit systems, hospital corridors, unstable thresholds, and a bell-marked seal-site where forgotten debts can become visible.
And at the center of it all is the backward road.
Because the remaining seals are connected by routes built from old debts-and if the road reaches the wrong door first, the next House seal may open itself.
The Backward Road is a high-stakes dark fantasy thriller filled with supernatural mysteries, dangerous magical systems, impossible roads, family bonds, psychological tension, and a relentless race against forces that want to turn people into property.
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