The Cloaked
Savior

In Hearthollow, Lord Draeven does not need to rule by chaos. His books are neat, his orders lawful and his scales only slightly wrong. That is enough to keep a valley hungry, indebted and afraid.

Cricket has spent seventeen years learning how to notice what everyone else has learned not to see. The masked Wanderer has spent even longer acting before anyone can stop them. When their paths cross over stolen grain, each recognises something useful in the other.

But a rebellion built around one impossible figure carries its own danger. The more Hearthollow believes someone will always come to save it, the more carefully it learns to wait.

As Draeven tightens the arithmetic and the cost of resistance rises, Cricket and the Wanderer must build something harder than a legend: a way for ordinary people to act, argue, remember and hold power to account even when no hero arrives.