{"product_id":"starforged-oath-chase-powers-9798233093128","title":"Starforged Oath","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey're lying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKael 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the ghosts start showing up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe war's \"necessary sacrifices\" were only the beginning. The ledger of the dead is out of balance, and it's coming due.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDragged into investigating \"anomalies,\" Kael finds patterns the Halls don't want named: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMiracles quietly re-routed to protect estates and hurt the poor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBowls that remember being told to take more than they were owed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis own name and his friends' marked as \u003cstrong\u003eresistant variables\u003c\/strong\u003e-problems to be fixed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's not alone. With him are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArien\u003c\/strong\u003e, the star-marked presence in his head: knife, compass, and terrible back-seat commentator\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLys\u003c\/strong\u003e, a princess doing politics with a sword in one hand and doctrine in the other\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBeneth\u003c\/strong\u003e, a clerk who thought \"public service\" meant taxes, not arguing theology with ghosts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA handful of exhausted soldiers and mages who are far too invested in not being written off as \"acceptable loss\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, they realise the hauntings aren't random. They're \u003cstrong\u003eevidence\u003c\/strong\u003e. Every echo is a line item the Audit tried to bury. Every apparition is a place where someone cooked the books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf they can follow the ghosts back far enough, they might prove: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWho decided which valleys were worth saving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow many \"acts of god\" were really acts of policy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd just how much of the god's justice is built on convenient lies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKael can't fight a divine Audit with steel. He can't send the ghosts neatly back to sleep. What he \u003cem\u003ecan\u003c\/em\u003e do is the thing he's always done: write down what really happened and refuse to sign the lie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf they fail, the fastest way to \"correct\" the mess will be simple: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErase the people asking questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLEDGER OF GHOSTS\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGhosts as receipts for stolen lives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFound-family banter in the middle of supernatural horror\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitical maneuvering between crowns, Halls, and a god that does not like being audited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSwordplay, ruined shrines, and the slow, furious work of dragging buried costs into the light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who like their fantasy sharp, emotional, and just a little bit obsessed with who gets written into the margins-and who doesn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chase Powers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798233093128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chase Powers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Chase Powers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48137277014271,"sku":"9798233093128","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b4a9cc51-fdee-482f-b376-3f2f9f6aadce.jpg?v=1770167759","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/starforged-oath-chase-powers-9798233093128","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}