Light of the Veil

David Artan is a dock rat on a poor fringe world who takes every job he can and prize-fights to earn enough money to get off world. He is hired to guide a boat crewed by an interstellar mafia and comes face to face with an ancient power, the Veil, that was pivotal to a civil war that ended decades ago. He is rescued by an Adept of the Paragon order and given the chance to journey beyond the Veil and into another dimension to claim a stone of immense power and return it to base reality. However, the world beyond the Veil is nothing like what David knows, and he will be opposed by insidious evil, self-doubt, and sabotage from the very people who are supposed to help him.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 18 December 2023
Publisher: Baen Books

David Artan is a dock rat on a poor fringe world, earning money through jobs and prize-fights to escape. When he is hired to guide a boat crewed by an interstellar mafia, he encounters an ancient power called the Veil, pivotal to a civil war that ended decades ago. Despite being Attuned to the power, David is almost killed by agents of the dead and a defeated Tyrant who nearly enslaved the galaxy. He is rescued by an Adept of the Paragon order, warrior scholars who study the power and seek to keep it in balance. David is given the chance to journey beyond the Veil and into another dimension, where he can claim a stone of immense power and return it to base reality to wield it as a weapon against the Tyrant. The world beyond the Veil is nothing like what David knows, and he will be opposed by insidious evil, self-doubt, and sabotage from the very people who are supposed to help him. While beyond the Veil, David learns that a Conjunction is nigh, an event that could sunder the galaxy if evil forces succeed. David must claim a Veil stone deep in the other dimension before the Tyrant's agents can beat him to the prize.

Weight: 484g
Dimension: 242 x 163 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781982193065