Sand Takes All (Marking of Graves Book 1)

In the Second Age, 1872 AC, the Duskland Sea of Sand is where maps end and empires lie.Caravans vanish without trace. Wells run poisoned. Roads turn into mass graves. Between ork bandits, ghoul robbers, Varnhollow scourges, and the shamanic Kheltai Communion, the frontier devours anyone foolish enough to believe the land can be owned.Jax Marrow is hired to do one simple thing: protect a caravan of settlers crossing the Duskland. What begins as escort work collapses into a brutal march of survival as the land strips away law, mercy, and illusion. One by one, the guards fall. The settlers break. And Jax learns the truth the frontier teaches all survivors—there is no justice here, only consequence.As fortified powers move in to claim the Duskland through iron, machines, and blood, Jax and the few gunslingers left standing make a choice that will reshape the region forever. They stop protecting routes and begin controlling them. They stop reacting and start deciding who lives long enough to pass.From burning towns to shattered forts, from ambush valleys to the destruction of Iron Cross Station, the Duskland Rangers are forged—not as heroes, not as lawmen, but as a necessary violence standing between settlers and extinction.The land does not forgive.The Rangers do not retreat.And the road will never be the same again. Read more