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Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Five hundred years after two young heirs split the sun to stop a war and accidentally tore reality into five drifting shards, the same fracture reopens in a canyon city called Ojo del Sol. Sixteen-year-old Joshua Reyes, a quiet fixer who has spent his life repairing what other people abandon, discovers he can rewind moments - and pays for each one with years off his own life. His eleven-year-old brother Ronnie, loud, stubborn, and carrying a carved wooden goat everywhere he goes, learns he can bend gravity itself, but every use crushes something: the ground, the world, or him.Their powers were never meant to appear together. The bloodline law says one child at a time, never two, and never in the same house. So when both halves surface in the Reyes brothers, the empires that survived the Sundering arrive with a single verdict: the world only lived last time because one of the gifted died. This time, they intend to choose which one.But Joshua has spent his whole life fixing what others wrote off. Ronnie has spent his whole life holding on. And when the brothers refuse the fate handed to them, the Null - the white absence that has been eating days, memories, and entire seasons - begins advancing faster, as if answering their defiance.Across canyon markets, drowned temples, obsidian armies, and turquoise sky-cities, the brothers fight to stay alive long enough to understand the prophecy carved on the gate: The sun was broken by two. It will be mended by one. Joshua reads that as a fault. Ronnie reads it as a lie.The world reads it as a death sentence.The Quantum Emperor is the opening chapter of a five-book epic about power that costs, family that fractures, and the terrifying question at the heart of the series: can two people share a crown built for one - or does the world end trying? Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 373.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every debt in the Riven World is written in blood and duration. In Book Nine, the debt comes due in pairs.Seven years after the miracle of the Holding, the world has stopped waiting for a savior and started managing survival.The Bureau of Duality now rules from the Azurite Dominion. Their logic is cold and perfect: The Calculant said one shall mend the sun, but the Holding proved it takes two - one to anchor mass, one to anchor time. If the sky needs two, then society must be Two. The Pairing Mandate is law. Marriages are arranged by tonnage and time-rate. The Unmarked, the Solos, are liabilities - locked in salt-pits, their seconds drained to pay for stable horizons.Ronnie Reyes knows the cost of that stability better than anyone. He stands on the lip of the Seam where wind doesn't blow, it vibrates, and feels every barge he lightens sink somewhere else. He is a king because he can hold weight, and a killer by proxy for the same reason.Joshua Reyes did not return the same. In Book Eight he aged a decade in three days to walk out of the Null. Now in 508, he is not in the Hall anymore. He is in the architecture - Kaelo hears him in the tectonic groan of the shards, in the tides. He is holding the door from the inside, and the door is made of his own skin.Citlali Vargas, still unmarked and therefore still the only baseline 1.00 in a room of accelerating decay, is tasked with ending the Bureau. She brings the Treaty of Hollows to the High Court of Ojo del Sol - dissolution of the Pairing Mandate, amnesty for Solos, restitution of duration. But treaties mean nothing when the Five Hollow Days begin, when no oath binds and the white time reigns.And deep in the Hall of Ancestors, Xalli finally understands the Third Niche. It was never for a holder. It was for the Anchor - a salt-glass heart that pulses like a transformer, a bridge between the brothers. Touching it costs her ten years in a single pulse, her hands turning to a crone's. And beneath it, the Stone carves its own verdict into history, deeper than any Reyes name: PATIENCE.The shadow without feet, which crossed a salt-flower in Book Seven and walked on air in Book Eight, now walks with purpose. It stands behind clerks in the treaty room. It crosses windowsills and leaves ash. Kaelo watches his own shadow abandon him in the salt market, drifting away toward the heart of the city.THE QUANTUM EMPEROR - BOOK NINE: THE COUNT OF TWO is about what happens when a prophecy is fulfilled but the world remains broken. When power is not a resource, but a transfer. When holding the sky is not triumph, but a long, slow execution - two men holding a rope over a cliff, and the rope is made of their own nerves.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. A niche is not a grave. A niche is a claim.The Holding held for two years. In AS 507, Ojo del Sol still stands, but the ledger is screaming.Joshua Reyes has returned. He walked into the White Hall in Book Seven and did not answer. Now he stumbles out onto the salt-crusted plaza of Ojo del Sol three days later - his hands gnarled, his dark hair turned brittle white, his youth traded for the privilege of exiting a place where decay has no meaning. The Hall doesn't take seconds. It erodes epochs.While Joshua paid in years, Ronnie is paying in mass. His graviton armor grows heavier every Turning, his veins black cords as he tries to hold up a vault that now has no weight - only Hunger.And at the center of it all is the Wall of Faces.For five hundred years, the Keepers said there were two niches waiting for a third savior to mend the suns. They lied. They plastered over the third with a slurry of bone and lime to hide the truth.Xalli kneels before it and triggers her Sight. The cost is absolute: her breakfast, her father's name, the sound of her own singing voice, the face of the woman she loves - all deleted to pay for one vision. When the false plaster crumbles, there is no ancestor.There is a brass plate. Precision hardware from before the Sundering.Miquiztli-14The architect of the Calculant. The lead engineer who built the engine that broke the light. The Sundering wasn't punishment. It was a failed calibration, and the Reyes line were never heroes of prophecy. They were biological dampeners - organic batteries fed into the machine to keep the anchor from cooling.Now Kaelen - the markless boy who feels nothing in his fingertips, who can carry the leaden burdens of the world without a wince because he has no sensory receipt - has found the Null-heart. He can Hold what Ronnie cannot grab, because it isn't heavy. It's hungry.The Seam is no longer a static scar. It is stretching, curving, opening like a lidless eye. The Hunger isn't coming to eat the living. It's coming to reclaim the space the world stole.In THE QUANTUM EMPEROR - BOOK EIGHT: THE THIRD NICHE, Alander Pulliam pulls back the myth of the Riven World to reveal the machine underneath - where fear, blood, and weight are not magic, but transactions, and the greatest debt is the continent itself.The third niche isn't a seat for a king. It's the invitation. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 266.…