Book I of The Valindar Cycle

Light's
Betrayal

A darkness has fallen over Valindar. A charming gambler with forbidden power. A noblewoman spy embedded inside the enemy court. Every glimmer of hope demands a devastating price.

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The Story

A Darkness Has Fallen Over Valindar

Twenty years ago, the god of Light abandoned his order of elite channelers, the Luminar, leaving them scattered and hunted to extinction. In their absence, the Eternum Syndicate rose from the shadows, erasing every trace of the old power.

Salvynd and Rogue want nothing to do with any of it. Two street gamblers in the rotting Lower District of Meridas, they survive on luck, charm, and keeping their heads down. Until a chance encounter with Vee, a noble-born girl who doesn’t belong in their world, ignites something forbidden: the Light, long thought dead.

As the Eternum closes in, Salvynd and Rogue find themselves pulled into a war they never wanted, alongside a girl whose loyalties may be their greatest threat.

In a world where every glimmer of hope demands a devastating price, they will have to choose what they’re willing to sacrifice before the Darkness claims them completely.

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The Author

W. B. Jackman

Wesley Jackman is a veteran of 9.5 years of military service and a debut novelist. Light’s Betrayal is his first novel — built from the conviction that the genre has room for stories that don’t flinch: morally complicated characters, real consequences, and magic systems that cost something.

He is from Redding, CA and is currently writing Book II of The Valindar Cycle.