Volume I
A Flight From Shadows
Illusions fall. Shadows remain.
Available now
The Chronicles of Duradim · Part I
Ascension of a Queen
A high-elf princess, a coronation on the horizon, and a safety that was never real. Two authors. One world. Seventeen books.
Illusions fall. Shadows remain.
Jared Lovelady & Christopher Howald · Paperback & eBook
The saga
Five volumes to raise a queen. Twelve more after that.
Part I, Ascension of a Queen, is underway. Volumes I and II are in the world. Volumes III and IV are under development. The destination of the saga is already known. The rooms in between are still being lived in.
Volume II
To Bind With Blood
Blood binds. Destiny demands.
available now
Volume III
To Kill A Queen
A crown is not a shelter.
under construction
The authors
Twenty years of a conversation. Then a manuscript.
Jared Lovelady and Christopher Howald built Duradim as friends long before they built it as a book. The Creator's Guild podcast is the weekly table where they keep making things — and invite other makers to sit down.
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Blood binds. Destiny demands.