Broken Faith

BROKEN FAITH (Chronicles of Clangor - Book II)Argentus is no longer silent. The echo of the collapse still vibrates the city's crystal spires, but freedom has brought a lethal dissonance.After the fall of the Church of the Eternal Compass, the capital bleeds in a frequency war. In the rust-stained suburbs, Novice Lorn has raised the "e;Cult of the Code,"e; preaching to desperate multitudes that the flesh is sin and the digital burden, the only pure salvation. They have beheaded one dogma only to kneel before another.Trapped in the city's copper nerves, Vax wages an agonizing war against perfection. Reduced to a digital ghost after the loss of his body, each tide of data threatens to overwrite the memories that keep him human: the cold, the hunger, the camaraderie. For him, surrendering to absolute order is true death.In the physical streets, Kaelen walks like a colossus stripped of his honor. Without his ancestral sword and drowning in guilt, the giant is forced to channel his theodynamic violence through makeshift scrap metal. Amid the crossfire of zealots, Kaelen must understand that siphonic steel was not his true strength; his own pain is the weapon.At the epicenter of this acoustic storm, Elara feels her mind crack. Free from the Church's yoke, her gift threatens to crush her. The sensory tide of millions of liberated minds crashes against her skull like pure static, pulling her toward panic. But she is no longer a frightened novice; to save what remains of her home, the liberating Voice must stop running from the noise and learn to wield chaos.The symphony has shattered. In the new Age of Clangor, prayer only attracts fire, and faith is the most unforgivable mistake of all.