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TIM FACCIOLA
A Vengeful Realm Series
Book 1: The Scales of Balance
Peace bought by blood seldom lasts, for vengeance knows no end. The same is true for mortals and Gods alike. Decades, centuries, eras may pass, but the cycle remains. As war and revolution rise again, Zephyrus finds himself at the center of it all. Chosen by the Gods, hailed as a prophet of liberation, and forged as a weapon to break the kingdom and restore balance to the realm, hope rests squarely on his shoulders.
If only he could remember…
Enslaved as a gladiator and thrust into a prince’s game of espionage, Zephyrus has only two clues to help unlock his shattered past: a prophecy foretelling destruction, and a letter to the enemy king, promising peace. Now Zephyrus must survive the dangers of the gladiatorial arena, the cunning fury of the Prince’s enemies, and the Gods’ torment if he is to find the truth of his identity and fulfill his fate. But to have any hope of breaking the cycle, first he must secure his freedom—and not just from his slavers.
Within this vengeful realm, a queen protecting her kingdom, a prince defending his father, and a gladiator slave haunted by a prophecy each contend for their own brand of freedom. But the Gods have an agenda of their own, and they'll use any vessel—patrician, plebeian, or slave—to see it done.
The scales must be balanced. By peace. Or by blood.
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Book 2: The Breaker of Chains
New Rheynia has woken from peace’s slumber to a nightmare. Denied the nightly rains, crops fail, people divide, and revolution blooms between every crack in the kingdoms’ failing foundation. King Varros—supposedly dead. Laeden, the traitor, a fugitive. And the Uprising’s patience has ended. Following Zephyrus’s open defiance of the crown, war has come.
And no one will emerge unscathed.
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While Danella directs Damascus to finish the war her father started, Laeden frees gladiator slaves to raise an army against them. With New Rheynia burning, Vykinallia, a prisoner of the Uprising, attempts to prove herself more valuable than a king’s ransom. And Iylea, after skirting death to become a servant in the divine realm, learns of a treacherous plot amongst the Gods with Zephyrus at the center of it all. Now, with the aid of Iylea in the divine realm and Laeden in the mortal, Zephyrus must claim the lost relics of long dead Gods if he has any chance of facing the Traitor God and breaking the chains that bind all of humanity. But plans are in place…
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The Age of the End is coming.
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Book 3: The Age of the End
The flood of blood drowns New Rheynia, but The Age of the End is only just beginning.
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Though the traitor God within Valencia has been exposed and Zephyrus and Threyna wild the artifacts of long dead deities, the way to the divine realm is blocked. The Harbinger has ascended to slaughter the Gods and leave the mortal realm in ruins. Yet Zephyrus, Laeden, Vykinallia, Iylea and Threyna have even more pressing concerns.
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The Skeleton King has come to New Rheynia’s shores. Empowered by cursed magic, he and his legions will stop at nothing to consume every soul in the mortal realm in service to their One True God. Regardless if they’re Valencian or Celestic, Rheynians or Helms, free or enslaved peoples- everyone must join together if they hope to outlast the apocalypse. Even the worst of enemies.
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Bonds of friendship and love will be tested. Chains of guilt and disdain will come undone. One way or another, the scales will be set right, and nothing will ever be the same again.
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Prequel: Ghosts of Rheynia
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Some curses run in the family. This one seeks to consume it.
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Ten years ago, Threyna's family fractured: her father lost in the Battle of the Cut, her mother and sister vanishing from her life. Now she fights with the Underground resistance, dreaming of rebellion — until a mission to save her condemned father goes wrong, leaving her cursed with blood magic that demands souls to survive.
Laela has spent a decade becoming her own kind of rebel: leading the Wraith in a desperate plan to escape their cursed isle. But when her careful exodus falls apart, she's forced to seek help from the sister she abandoned. The sister who now wields the same dark power that turned their realm into a prison for the dead.
Their reunion was meant to be temporary. Their alliance, tactical. But with the Skeleton King's undying army hunting them both, they'll have to decide what's stronger: the bonds of blood, or the curse running through it.
Perfect for readers who love:
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Sisters wielding dark magic against impossible odds
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Complex family bonds tested by betrayal and power
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Dark fantasy where death isn't the end
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Stories of rebellion with devastating choices
First in the epic series that leads to the A VENGEFUL REALM trilogy. Can be read as a standalone or series start.