Realms’ Anchor Book IV Title Reveal

Just finished the last major edit of Book IV. Reads well, hits the notes I was hoping to hit, closes some doors and sets up Book V. I’m still hoping to wrap everything up satisfactorily in 6 books without cutting anything short, but we’ll see. I could goto 7 if needed. That’ll happen if V ends around 80k words instead of bulging out to 140k like IV.

Anyway, this is all about IV. I’ve got a title and a teaser to drop (in case you can't see the above promo poster).

Title: Ajid’s Winter: Realms’ Anchor IV.

Brines is gone. Saunders is down. The Marines are scattered. And winter is here.

The Last Army has breached Galimay’s defensive frontier and marches unopposed into the heartland. As Durador’s forces withdraw to defend the great cities, the countryside is abandoned to starvation and ruin. In the growing vacuum, law belongs to the lawless.

The Marines wage a desperate guerrilla campaign against the enemy advance. But amid the chaos, an ancient evil stirs as if answering the call of the Stochasm. With civilization fracturing around them, one question haunts the realm: Are the Marines saviors, or harbingers of the Stochasm?

Yet at their lowest, hope endures in Hearthstead, a village starved by winter. There, the first embers of an unlikely purpose begin to glow.

The process of preparing the raw manuscript for publication takes about 3 months. I know I’m looking forward to seeing it in print. Hope you are too.