The Fracturing Grey Deep Book

THE FRACTURING – A Grey Deep Novel: Book OneTwo hundred years ago, the Old Kingdom drowned. The Oathkeepers performed their final binding ritual to contain what sleeps beneath The Grey Deep—and failed. The sea took them anyway, and the storms came just the same.The world moved on. New kingdoms rose, built on reason instead of blood pacts, dismissing the old warnings as superstition. But the sea doesn’t forget broken promises, and now that ancient binding is beginning to shatter.Across three kingdoms, three lives are about to fracture.A naval officer loses everything to political betrayal and discovers that survival means becoming someone his former self wouldn’t recognize. A commander’s daughter learns that privilege is a fragile lie, and escape requires cold-blooded murder. A young raider finds a darkness inside himself—the part that craves the killing—and realizes it might be the only thing keeping him alive.Three people breaking under impossible pressure. Three kingdoms built on the ruins of forgotten gods. One ancient power stirring beneath the waves. And somewhere in a distant temple, a seven-year-old girl is manifesting something that makes the other children scream.This is dark fantasy where idealists become monsters, trauma forges steel, and no one is coming to save you. No prophecies. No chosen heroes. Just people shattering and rebuilding themselves into something harder, colder, more dangerous—while something ancient stirs in the depths below, waiting for the binding to break.Book one of five.Content warning: Graphic violence, slavery, and trauma. Recommended for mature readers.