Elareth: The First Road of Endurance: Book One of the Elareth Cycle

Elareth: The First Road to Endurance

In a single breath, half the world disappeared.

No armies marched. No fire fell from the sky. People were simply gone — mid-step, mid-sentence, mid-breath. Cities stood half-empty. Lanterns burned for the missing. And those left behind were given no warning, only silence and a harder gift: to endure what remained.

Arelon of Shilor was one of the remnant. With his sister Mirel and a small company of survivors, he watches his city fracture under the weight of absence. But when the ancient endurance roads begin to wake beneath their feet, Arelon and the others are drawn out of Shilor and into a hidden network of paths that remember what the surface world has long forgotten.

As they walk the First Road, they discover they are not alone. Other survivors are moving through the changed lands, and something vast and long-buried is stirring in response. The Taking was only the beginning. The roads are opening. And the remnant must decide what they are willing to carry — and what they are willing to become — as they step into the unknown.

Elareth: The First Road to Endurance is the first book in The Elareth Cycle, a new epic fantasy series about memory, loss, and the quiet courage required to keep walking when the world you knew has been halved.