The Weight of Destiny

By Giuseppe Cascarano

Remigio Ventrepieno has a system.

Keep your distance. Count your paces. Collect the debt. Go home.

It has served him well for ten years as a debt collector in the kingdom of Peltravia - a land of petty lords, crooked millers, and rivers that flood at inconvenient times. The system requires no heroism, produces no complications, and pays just enough to make complications undesirable.

Then a village of three hundred and two people refuses to be calculated.

What begins as a routine collection in the backwater of Ponteverde draws Remigio into a web of unpaid accounts, stubborn silences, and one woman who appears to have read the same manual on rational self-preservation - and abandoned it for reasons she declines to explain.

The Weight of Destiny is a darkly comic historical fantasy in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie and Robin Hobb, set in a richly imagined medieval world where the smallest decisions carry the longest shadows.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:

- Morally complex protagonists who are good at their jobs and bad at everything else

- Historical fiction with wit and precise prose

- Fantasy grounded in economics, debt, and the inconvenience of other people

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GSZHX6JB
• ISBN13: 9798252597287
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"