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The Shadow of the Prophecy and the Book of Ash
Paperback
Series: Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
Publisher: Mouad Bouhlal
Published: Nov 10 2025
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the pristine Kingdom of Aurona, life is sustained by the Prophecy of Dawn, a sacred pact that legitimizes the rule of the beloved Heir of Light, Prince Faris. Everyone believes the Prophecy is salvation-a promise of stability against the eternal threat of the Ash Shadow.
But for Alya, a meticulous and unnoticed Archival Clerk, the Prophecy is just an exquisitely bound series of historical revisions. Her quiet obsession with the missing texts leads her to a clandestine discovery: a hidden, burned cache of forbidden documents-the shattered remains of The Book of Ash.
The Book reveals a terrifying truth: the balance of Light and Shadow is a carefully crafted lie, a parasitic system engineered centuries ago to justify the kingdom's systemic consumption of the world's vital energy. Alya realizes Prince Faris is not the world's savior, but the ultimate gatekeeper of its inevitable demise.
Now a fugitive, Alya must abandon the comfortable certainty of the Archives and risk descent into The Gloom, the city's underbelly of outcasts and forgotten secrets. Her knowledge is the only weapon she has against the full might of the most powerful man in Aurona, who will stop at nothing to ensure his divine lie endures.
To save her world, Alya must not rewrite history-she must ignite it.
Can one scholar, armed only with brittle, burnt pages and fierce desperation, expose a millennium-old royal conspiracy before the Shadow of the Prophecy consumes them all?
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