The Brotherhood

The Living Worlds Saga, Book 1

By: A. J. Nguyen

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

THE BROTHERHOOD: THE LIVING WORLDS SAGA, BOOK 1

A dead brother’s warning. A queen surrounded by knives. A holy order that may have mistaken obedience for truth.

Brother Titus Alaric Mirth was trained to witness, not to choose. But when a battlefield catastrophe leaves his brother dead and a forbidden warning hidden inside an oathblade, Titus is sent to Ilara, a glittering crown-world where ceremony hides rot beneath glass.

Queen Camilla Ilaris is fighting to keep her throne from nobles, foreign powers, and a court eager to call surrender stability. The arrival of a grieving Brotherhood envoy should be another political burden. Instead, Titus brings evidence that the same impossible pulse that corrupted machines at the Rift is now moving through Ilara’s own systems.

Neither can afford trust.

Neither can survive without witness.

As sabotage, old secrets, and courtly betrayals tighten around them, Titus and Camilla must decide what is more dangerous: the truth hidden beneath Ilara, or the institutions determined to decide who is allowed to know it.

The Brotherhood is a sweeping science-fantasy space opera of court intrigue, ancient technology, slow-burn tension, and the terrible cost of choosing when neutrality becomes another word for silence.