A RELUCTANT RECRUIT.
A POWER THAT WARPS REALITY.
A WIFE ONLY HE REMEMBERS.
Andrei Kraynov is the only person on Earth who knows a piece of reality has been stolen — and if he stops climbing, he’ll never learn who took her, or why.
Three months ago, he didn’t know he’d ever been married.
He was an ordinary guy who fell through a crack in the world on his lunch break. Now his reality is an empty apartment he’s been living in for weeks, haunted by the phantom presence of a wife who officially never existed. No photos. No records. Just a bleeding hole in his memory where a name used to be. Anya.
Drafted into a shadow Organization that polices the tears in reality, Andrei is forced into a brutal apprenticeship. He learns to bend matter through shape, intent, and the raw force of his own mind — a magic with ruthless geometry, where every construct is a trial and every mistake is a corpse. With each trial his power grows. His body changes. His eyes are turning black — starless pits that see reality breaking apart before it tears.
To find the truth about Anya, he needs the Organization’s secrets. But the instructors pushing him to his breaking point might be the exact same people who erased her. Every lesson is a lie. And the deadly magic he’s mastering might be the very weapon that destroyed his life.
Surrounded by mentors he can’t trust and a system designed to break him, he has to piece it together alone.
But the Organization isn’t the only side in this war.
The First Facet is progression fantasy to rival Cradle and Mother of Learning — told in the cold, bureaucratic voice of the post-Soviet occult.
Book one in the Facets of the Void series.
