In the final days of the Modern Era, the world does not end all at once. It fractures.
Meadwyn was once a city of coin and order. Now it is a city of suspicion, ration lines, and whispered rumors about sickness and war. October 1, Year 22,137... the day everything shifts from tension to collapse.
Pine Halveth has one rule: keep his daughter alive.
Rose is young, quiet, and different in ways the world would punish if it knew. In a city gripped by insurgent violence, quarantine rumors, and collapsing authority, even a glimpse of what makes her rare could turn her into a prize.
When Ashkarthian insurgents strike the Market Ward and the streets descend into chaos, the Halveth family is torn from the thin safety of routine and dragged into the underbelly of a city already falling apart. Knights in dark armor race across rooftops. Radios declare the city a warzone. Whispers of "elf fever" spread like fire through dry timber.
But in a world where coin is king and fear is currency, survival demands more than hope.
As the line between civilization and wasteland dissolves, Rose must learn what it means to be hunted - and what it means to endure.
The Book of Rose is a gripping military-fantasy thriller set at the violent turning point between eras. Blending grounded urban warfare with mythic bloodlines and moral tension, it explores family loyalty, rumor-fueled hysteria, and the terrible cost of being rare in a broken world.
For readers who love military tension, dark fantasy, and stories where survival is never guaranteed.