Keepers of the Sword Channel

When Jalinda undergoes the Sword Ceremony and awakens to shared consciousness with her bonded warrior Kyr, she inherits far more than power—she inherits the weight of her people's colonial legacy. Drafted into a warparty tasked with hunting an endangered species, she begins to question the mythology that justifies expansion, even as she discovers abilities that could reshape her civilization's future. As moral certainties crumble and first contact with displaced peoples forces impossible choices, Jalinda must navigate the space between duty and conscience, survival and ethics. Paul Wright Jameson's debut is a dark coming-of-age that trades easy heroism for the harder work of building understanding in a fractured world.