Veinfire

In the broken city of Varn, magic is power and power is hoarded.



Vein cores, ancient living crystals, are grafted into the bodies of the elite, granting terrifying strength at the cost of slow madness. For the poor, even touching a core is a death sentence.



Seventeen-year-old Kael, a street thief with nothing to lose, breaks into a royal vault looking for something small to steal and sell.



He finds something else.



A sealed vein core unlike any ever seen. It pulses. It whispers. It lives. The moment he touches it, it melts into his chest and fuses with his soul.



What Kael doesn’t know is that this core contains the last remnant of a forgotten god, betrayed and bound during the birth of the empire. Now, as powers awaken in him and voices fill his dreams, Kael is hunted by the Core Lords, courted by rebels, and feared by even those he loves.



He does not want to be a hero.

He does not want to be a god.

But something ancient is stirring beneath his skin

And it wants out.