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The Crown wants the stone. The Guild wants the stone. Rowan Hale wants to be left alone. He's not getting that. No politics. No Crowns. No Guild charters. Just a crossroads, a growing class, and the patience to outlast anyone who shows up at his door. Then the Crown sends a baroness and the...

Rowan Hale has his inn, his fire, and Valentina watching the boundary. He was content. No more wars. No more orders. Just hot meals, a growing class, and peace that finally feels earned. Then a guild investigator arrives looking for a stolen artifact that could end sixty years of political arrangement in a single legal motion. She came to investigate. She found something worse.

Rowan Hale survived six years of war, held a bridge against impossible odds, and walked out of the Hall of Fates with an Innkeeper class. He was thrilled.
No more campaigns. No more dying. Just a crossroads inn, a good fire, and finally some peace. Then a golden-haired warrior woman falls through his door at midnight. Trouble follows her like a shadow. Rowan finds he doesn't mind.

Stryker Company always brings the fight, but when they relieve embittered and embattled Republic marines, they find an enemy unwilling to stand up and face them. Tasked with protecting the Republic's interests on a mining world, the legionnaires face roadside ambushes, double-dealing locals, and constant sabotage. And the mission isn’t as straightforward as they thought it would be. As skirmishes escalate into coordinated ambushes, two squad leaders, Talon and Lankin, are forced to chase after the sparks threatening to ignite the entire populace into a full-blown insurgency.