The Seventh Tier, Paper Back

Rome never fell. It was never allowed to.

The Empire is eternal — its borders patrolled, its knowledge rationed, its history quietly steered by powers that call themselves keepers of balance. Rome's world sits at the very bottom of a hidden order of worlds: the lowest tier, held in place for a very long time.

Amis, a sheltered physician's apprentice in Paris, knows none of this. Then a scarred veteran and a blinded knight tear him from his master's house and march him north with a battered company of Roman soldiers — toward the frontier, and the ruins of a war no history book records.

Amis carries two things he barely understands: a bloodline someone worked hard to bury, and a gift stirring awake inside him. Both make him valuable. Both make him hunted — by the Empire's own agents, by augmented assassins sworn to bring the Empire down, and by the far older powers watching from above.

The truth doesn't come easily. It comes the way it would in a world built on secrets: in fragments, half-lies, and hard-won revelations — until Amis understands that his world was never spared from ruin. It was held back from everything it might have become.

The Seventh Tier is Book One of the Tier Fall series — a dark, atmospheric blend of military fantasy, alternate history, and cosmic science fantasy. For readers of Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice, Pierce Brown's Red Rising, and Brian Staveley's The Emperor's Blades.

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