Of Flame, Sand, and Gold
John T White
“I buried you,” the traitor whispered.
“Then dig deeper,” Kaelen replied, voice like sand on steel, “because I’m not done rising.”
Zaria stood behind him, the wind pulling strands of her hair like fire-dancers in the dusk. “Let them come,” she said. “We burn hotter together.”
The masked woman landed beside them, blades humming with heat.
“You still don’t get it,” Kaelen muttered, watching the desert pulse like a living thing.
“Get what?”
“This isn’t a fight for gold.”
“Then what is it?”
Kaelen smirked, cracked lips bloodied. “It’s the reckoning.”
Kaelen was left for dead in the scorching sands of Sutekh; stripped of his name, his wife, and the child he never met. But the desert doesn’t forget. It carves vengeance into bone.
Now, Kaelen rises from the ruins of betrayal as something more than a man: marked by ancient fire, hunted by his half-brother, and haunted by what he can’t remember. As he claws his way back through a kingdom built on secrets, one thing drives him: Zaria. His wife. Missing, maybe dead; or worse, weaponized by those who want to claim a legacy soaked in blood.
But Zaria is no victim. Imprisoned and pregnant, she holds the key to an empire long thought dead. And when her twin sister emerges from the shadows to seize that power for herself, love becomes war — and the price of legacy is life itself. In a world where loyalty is a lie and prophecy demands sacrifice, Kaelen must decide: will he reclaim what was stolen; or burn it all to the ground?
OF FLAME, SAND, AND GOLD is an epic fantasy of fire-forged vengeance, unbroken love, and the rebirth of a forgotten kingdom.
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