Legend of the Sleepers

Crystal Bound Book 4

By: DJ Bowman-Smith

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She is too young. The burden is hers anyway.

Everyone who looks at Atini sees the king. She has his eyes, his stillness, his habit of caring deeply about people who can offer her nothing in return. Orrld has done his best to give her a childhood — to let her be young, just for a while, before the world asks everything of her.

He has failed. She grew too fast, learned too quickly, and now she is making decisions that will shape the fate of the Trilands, whether the adults around her are ready for that or not.

Rumour says her father is massing his army in the east. That the king is finally willing to meet the Sturgar in open battle. Atini has studied the Sturgar her whole life. She knows they do not choose a battlefield unless the outcome is already settled. If her father's army marches east, it will be slaughtered.

Her only hope is a legend. A story told in old languages and carved into the walls of burned-out places. The sleepers. Ancient, vast, and waiting. If they are real. If they can be woken. If she can reach them before her father's army moves.

The Trilands have one chance. Atini is it.

The Legend of the Sleepers is the fourth and final book in DJ Bowman-Smith's Crystal Bound series. For fans of George R. R. Martin, R. F. Kuang and Tasha Suri.