Starforged Oath

<p>The war is over. The Starforge fronts have gone quiet the bowls have been scrubbed clean and the priests swear the god's books are balanced.</p><p>They're lying.</p><p>Kael Renn-Witness professional miracle-skeptic and the man who once refused to sign off on a massacre-has traded trenches for city streets. Now he's supposed to certify tame little blessings: good harvests clean water protective wards that definitely don't liquefy anyone.</p><p>Then the ghosts start showing up.</p><p>A boy choking on river water in the middle of a dry lane. A woman clawing at a phantom arrow no one else can see. Whole districts waking with someone else's worst day jammed into their bones. Each haunting points to the same truth: for years the god that runs the corrections has been shuffling costs hiding the blood-price of miracles in places no one was meant to look.</p><p>The war's necessary sacrifices were only the beginning. The ledger of the dead is out of balance and it's coming due.</p><p>Dragged into investigating anomalies Kael finds patterns the Halls don't want named:</p><ul><li>Miracles quietly re-routed to protect estates and hurt the poor</li><li>Bowls that remember being told to take more than they were owed</li><li>His own name and his friends' marked as <strong>resistant variables</strong>-problems to be fixed</li></ul><p>He's not alone. With him are:</p><ul><li><strong>Arien</strong> the star-marked presence in his head: knife compass and terrible back-seat commentator</li><li><strong>Lys</strong> a princess doing politics with a sword in one hand and doctrine in the other</li><li><strong>Beneth</strong> a clerk who thought public service meant taxes not arguing theology with ghosts</li><li>A handful of exhausted soldiers and mages who are far too invested in not being written off as acceptable loss</li></ul><p>Together they realise the hauntings aren't random. They're <strong>evidence</strong>. Every echo is a line item the Audit tried to bury. Every apparition is a place where someone cooked the books.</p><p>If they can follow the ghosts back far enough they might prove:</p><ul><li>Who decided which valleys were worth saving</li><li>How many acts of god were really acts of policy</li><li>And just how much of the god's justice is built on convenient lies</li></ul><p>But the more they tug on the threads the harder the system pulls back. Bowls turn hostile. Prelates whisper about purges. And the god-accountant starts sharpening its red ink.</p><p>Kael can't fight a divine Audit with steel. He can't send the ghosts neatly back to sleep. What he <em>can</em> do is the thing he's always done: write down what really happened and refuse to sign the lie.</p><p>If they succeed they'll force the system to admit the dead were cheated-and open the way for a different kind of miracle one that asks before it takes.</p><p>If they fail the fastest way to correct the mess will be simple:</p><p>Erase the people asking questions.</p><p><strong>LEDGER OF GHOSTS</strong> is Book Two of the Starforged Cycle a character-driven epic fantasy about hauntings bad bookkeeping and the stubborn mouthy mortals who insist that the cost of a miracle should never be a surprise.</p><ul><li>Ghosts as receipts for stolen lives</li><li>Found-family banter in the middle of supernatural horror</li><li>Political maneuvering between crowns Halls and a god that does not like being audited</li><li>Swordplay ruined shrines and the slow furious work of dragging buried costs into the light</li></ul><p>For readers who like their fantasy sharp emotional and just a little bit obsessed with who gets written into the margins-and who doesn't.</p>