The Block Crown: Smoke & Bone (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798254387206)

In Vireaux City, power isn't voted on-it's inherited, whispered, and enforced through an ancient street doctrine known as the Book of Silence.

When the ruling bloodline of the House of Sahrin collapses, the city splinters into rival territories, each governed by warlords, prophets, and syndicates clinging to fading codes of loyalty and control.

Then Zaahir Sahrin-the exiled second son thought erased-returns.

Not with armies.
Not with speeches.

With silence.

His first act is simple:
a mask placed at an abandoned shrine,
a message scrawled beneath it-

WE NEVER LEFT.

And just like that...the city remembers.