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Name: Threading the needle
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Author: Joshua Palmatier

📘 Threading the needle by Joshua Palmatier

In Erenthrall, the Nexus—a hub fashioned by the Prime Wielders to channel the city’s ley line magic—has shattered, unleashing a pulse that devastates the city and creates a yawning distortion over the Baronial Plains. Survivors Kara Tremain, a powerful Wielder, and Allan Garrett, a former Dog, guide a small group of refugees into the Hollow, a sanctuary perched on the hills beyond the plains. The ley system remains broken, and the only path to restoring balance is to mend the distortion and repair the broken ley lines. To accomplish this, the refugees must venture into Erenthrall, now ruled by hostile human and non‑human factions desperate for the remaining resources. Their journey is a blend of magic, grit, and resistance against a fractured government in a dystopian world.

First publish date: 2016

Genre: Fantasy/Epic Fantasy

Authors: Joshua Palmatier

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