Veyra Companion Novel
When obedience goes to war, even victory becomes a weapon.
Blurb
The capital has learned to fear the Black Choir.
In the Free States, they are still learning what fear becomes when it is sent to war.
General Veyra commands the Ascendant Order’s pacification campaign beyond the capital, where rebellion burns through occupied provinces and Black Choir detachments fight far from the discipline of central command. Some units obey the Order. Some obey local authorities. Some answer to sealed commands no one can name.
And some leave behind only silence, ash, and a green-black mark.
When a rising rebel network known as the Ember Directive begins surviving operations it should not survive, Veyra uncovers a deeper contamination inside the Order’s own war machine. Unauthorised Choir cells, vanished prisoners, leaked routes, contradictory orders, and a hidden patron known only as Viridian all point to one impossible truth:
the rebellion is not the only force being cultivated in the Free States.
To preserve the High Synod’s command, Veyra must crush insurgents, purge private armies, and turn the Black Choir’s outer forces into one disciplined instrument. But every victory narrows the field exactly as Viridian intends.
By the time Veyra becomes supreme commander of the Black Choir, she will believe she has severed every private chain of command.
She will be wrong.
