Book II of The First Exile Trilogy · The First Exile Trilogy
The Kingdoms of Dust
THE WORLD DROWNED. THE PUNISHMENT DID NOT.
Cain wakes in mud, and the world he built is gone. The water has taken the city, the graves, and everyone who knew his name. What it did not take is the hunger, or the mark, or the years that refuse to end. So he walks into the new world as a stranger, and for the first time nobody recoils. Men are raising towers, inventing kings, cutting laws into clay, and building gods out of dust. Cain works beside them under borrowed names and watches his own story harden into a legend that gets almost everything wrong. But his blood survived the flood in other bodies, and the Line is spreading. Some of his descendants are worshipping what he is. Others are hunting it. Then, in a province of an empire that has never heard of him, a teacher is executed and does not stay dead, and Cain finally hears the only answer he has ever wanted.
345 pages · 9798194349296 · Perch Press
Book II of The First Exile Trilogy. The story concludes in The Last Brother.
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M. A. Khan writes at the meeting point of ancient warning and modern consequence. A British author with a previous career at the sharp end of military and trauma medicine, he brings a surgeon's economy and a soldier's eye to stories that range from apocalyptic geopolitical thrillers to mythic dark fantasy. His books ask one recurring question: when the old stories said we were warned, what exactly were we supposed to do about it? He writes as M. A. Khan; his nonfiction appears under Mansoor Ali Khan. Published by Perch Press.