Nikola Muckajev
The Crowns are broken. The First Beasts are awake. Forests grow through cities, old memories flood the sea, packs swallow individual minds, time loosens beneath the earth, and every road offers a different life. At the center of the waking world, the King-in-Every-Crown is building one final throne. It offers Ivo a perfect map: no lost children, no broken promises, no road without a safe ending. All he must do is become the eighth lock and give the world back its cage.