Light of the Veil

Jayce 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. When he is hired to guide a boat crewed by an interstellar mafia, he 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 and wield it as a weapon against the Tyrant.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 07 October 2024
Publisher: Baen Books

Jayce Artan is a dock rat on a poor fringe world, taking every job and prize-fight to earn enough money to get off-world. When he is hired to guide a boat crewed by an interstellar mafia, he comes face to face with an ancient power—the Veil—that was pivotal to a civil war that ended decades ago. Jayce is Attuned to this power and was almost killed by agents of the dead and defeated Tyrant who nearly enslaved the galaxy. He is rescued by an Adept of the Paragon order, warrior scholars that study the power and seek to keep any from upsetting the balance that keeps all life in order. Jayce 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 and wield it as a weapon against the Tyrant. The world beyond the Veil is nothing like what Jayce 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, Jayce learns that a Conjunction is nigh, an event that could sunder the galaxy if evil forces succeed. Jayce must claim a Veil stone deep in the other dimension before the Tyrant's agents can beat him to the prize.

ISBN-13: 9781982193713