Book 5 · the Saga Finale · The Prophecy of Ruin Saga
The Last Cairn
An Epic Fantasy of the Last Warning
THE WORLD'S LAST WARNING IS FALLING OVER BESIDE A ROAD.
For generations the cairns have simply worked. Stacked stones beside roads and doors and graves, humming their one patient message: something is being kept away. Now they are failing. Quietly, politely, one by one, in a widening ring around the city of Calvestrin. Saren Vale is a civic surveyor, a man of measurements and margins, with a mark beneath his collarbone he has always called a scar. When the great cairn under the city speaks a single word to him, he inherits everything he never asked for: four legendary blades with four terrible principles, the bloodline of a man erased from every record, and the argument the world never finished. One power offers perfection. Another offers release. Both are done waiting. The stories got almost everything wrong. Saren has one chance to get the ending right, and endings, he discovers, are built like cairns: one deliberate stone at a time, by someone nobody remembers.
642 pages · Perch Press
Book 5 of The Prophecy of Ruin Saga. The saga is complete.
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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.