When disgraced archivist Silas Ward flees Sacramento after accidentally bankrupting half the city, his only escape is a mysterious lighthouse keeper position. But the Azure Spire runs on pre-Fall magic and some systems can't be debugged with logic alone.
Book One of The Keeper's Canticle
When disgraced archivist Silas Ward flees Sacramento after accidentally bankrupting half the city with a badly executed script, his only escape is a mysterious lighthouse keeper position on Tidestone Isle. But the Azure Spire isn't just any lighthouse, it runs on pre-Fall magic, and Silas is about to discover that some systems can't be debugged with logic alone.
Haunted by the specter of his catastrophic failure, Silas arrives at the windswept island expecting isolation and redemption. Instead, he finds a lighthouse powered by an ancient Starlight Lens, stairs that don't always count the same way twice, and cryptic warnings from a sea captain who might be ferrying souls rather than passengers.
As fog rolls in and the lighthouse beam cuts through mysteries deeper than the surrounding sea, Silas must learn to trust in magic he doesn't understand or risk losing himself to the very chaos he's spent his life trying to control.
Toby 'Shane' Crosby spends his days protecting the digital world as a cybersecurity engineer and his nights building fantasy ones. He is the author of the Isekai/Fantasy series, the Keeper's Canticle.
Their home is joyfully chaotic thanks to a clowder of Ragdoll cats and two giant, lovable Newfoundlands. Toby and his wife enjoys travelling to attend concerts and hanging out on the beach with the family.
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