The Unkept Covenant

Parliament's founding fraud is exposed, but the coast is still dying. When relocation orders threaten highland communities near mounting disturbances, Maren Voss follows a message in an unknown script beyond the last line on her chart. There she finds a covenant older than Parliament and a truth Caldenmere is unprepared to hear: the vel-nir is not simply a disaster, but part of an agreement humanity abandoned. To protect the communities Parliament intends to move, Maren must bring that truth home while the institution turns her partnership with Caelan Dantris into evidence against them both.