Stories forged at the edge of the known world

Epic fantasy
with a frontier soul.

Flawed heroes. Impossible choices. Ancient power with a price.

Frontier fantasyBook one is out now
The world is rarely divided between good people and bad people. It is divided between hard choices - and what they reveal.
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The first expedition

Mercy has a cost.
Ruin has a memory.

Book I Cover of The Mercy of Ruin by Michael Eidson

The Eightfold Covenant

The Mercy
of Ruin

He walked away from the law to escape his past. Then the past came looking for him.

When raiders burn Zion's Vale, former Sentinel Jovan Ga'al emerges from the flames with a mysterious medallion - and a forbidden power he once spent years policing. Far away, sheltered Dreamer Eazra Horama sees an impossible darkness spreading through visions of a forgotten age.

As their paths converge, ancient relics resurface, old enemies begin to move, and the magic civilization depends upon reveals a darker cost.

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Veteran
Journalist
Investigator
Storyteller
Author Michael Eidson smiling in a warm, rustic setting
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Behind the stories

I have always been drawn to the places where character is tested.

I'm Michael Eidson - a U.S. Navy veteran, former combat journalist, criminal investigator, endurance athlete, outdoorsman, and now novelist.

My stories draw from classic Westerns, military history, and mythology. I write about dangerous frontiers, buried truths, and broken people discovering they are still capable of extraordinary things.

Michael Eidson

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The compass behind the work

True north.

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Character before spectacle.

Magic matters most when it costs someone something.

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Mercy is never simple.

The right choice and the easy choice rarely share a road.

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The past keeps receipts.

History is not backdrop. It is pressure, inheritance, and consequence.

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Hope must be earned.

Even broken people can do extraordinary things - but never for free.

Your next journey

The vale is burning.
The covenant is waking.

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Correspondence

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Questions about The Mercy of Ruin, event invitations, interviews, and professional inquiries are welcome.

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