Lord of the Mysteries: The Kingdom Without a King

[A Lord of the Mysteries and Circle of Inevitability universe AU fanfic, with an original protagonist and an alternate historical timeline. Not an official sequel.]

Republic of Intis, 1358.

Eighteen-year-old Karl Bona wants to get back the fifty pounds of wheat wrongly deducted from six farming families.

The grain cart never reached the government granary, yet the names of the dead remained on the ration register. Following the white mud on the wheels, he and his foster sister Aurore discover that deaths in their village are repeating.

The Hunter potion gives him the ability to track his enemies, but it cannot tell him whom to trust when someone opens a door for him.

From a village granary to the barricades of Trier, the Tarot Club, Roselle's old papers, and debts of gratitude that saved lives push him toward an ever-wider battlefield.

And he remembers that the five pounds of wheat meant for his family could have fed them for several meals.