Book One of the Western Province
The Empire calls it a blight.
The Church calls it a divine trial.
The people call it… something far worse.
In the rain-soaked province of Valoria, the crops have failed, the villages have fallen silent, and something unnatural walks the empty roads.
Sergeant Valerius, a hardened soldier of the Empire, is sent west with orders to contain the famine and restore order. But what he finds is not starvation alone. Entire settlements stand abandoned, their doors left open, their lives unfinished…
Driven by an endless, unnatural hunger, the dead now roam the land—slow, relentless, and impossible to kill by any means the Empire understands. As whispers of the truth spread, they are quickly buried beneath orders, doctrine, and fear.
With his men losing faith and the world collapsing around him, Valerius must choose between duty and survival. As the infection spreads and the western province falls into darkness, one truth becomes impossible to ignore:
