The Gathering: The Gathering Series Book 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798195312817)

THE GATHERING - Book One of The Gathering Series A master thief. A perfect trap. A destiny none of them saw coming.

Eldra has spent thirty-four years becoming the best at what he is: a ghost in locked rooms, a craftsman of impossible thefts, and a man who survives by staying three steps ahead of everyone-including the universe itself. But when a seemingly simple commission at the opulent Celestial Palace aligns with the Summer Festival, Eldra brings along the two people he trusts most: his brilliant nine-year-old daughter Kessa and his razor-sharp sister Sera.

What begins as a routine retrieval unravels into something far more dangerous. The job is a trap-an exquisitely engineered snare designed by Ianitus Silvertongue, a man who has studied Eldra's methods for over a decade. Yet the trap doesn't just catch Eldra. It draws together a convergence of people and events that will shape the fate of far more than a single thief's freedom.

As Eldra navigates the Festival's beauty, the Palace's secrets, and the tightening jaws of a plan eleven years in the making, he begins to understand a deeper truth: the universe isn't cruel or kind-it's interested. And it has just placed him, his family, and several unlikely allies at the beginning of something far larger than any of them realize.

A story of precision, fate, and the bonds that hold us together, The Gathering is the opening chapter of an epic saga about the people drawn into the room when the universe decides it's time for change.