Every wound remembers.
Tavren came to Latchford for food, shelter, and a gate that would open by morning.
Instead, he finds a child marked for Crown classification.
Renn Marrin is young, frightened, and trapped beneath a village’s old fear. His father vanished on an erased road. His bloodline is uncertain. His name has already been written into records by people who see mercy as something to measure, control, and enforce.
Tav should leave.
But when he turns an old road shrine back toward the road, accepts forbidden kitchen salt, and steps too close to Renn’s hearing, Latchford begins to crack open around him.
Beneath the village lies a wound no one has truly witnessed: a false story, a buried road, a poisoned record, and a truth powerful enough to threaten every locked door in town.
The Wounds of Veyr: Latchford is a dark fantasy novel about dangerous mercy, bloodline fear, old laws, broken roads, and the terrible cost of protecting someone the world has already condemned.
