the Archive of Faithful: A Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Novel (The Dominion Series, Book 1)

The world didn't end in fire. It ended in silence. The slow, creeping silence of a republic that forgot why it existed. Cities fell. Borders dissolved. History itself became contraband, and the men who burned the books built an empire on the ashes. They call themselves the Dominion. Levi Kane has spent thirty-five years in the frozen north, running a settlement called Northwatch and keeping faith with a God most people have stopped praying to. Then a trader arrives with a message that changes everything. The last archive of founding documents is about to fall into Dominion hands. The Constitution. The Declaration. The blueprints for a free civilization. Everything the Dominion has spent three decades erasing. The man who carries it will be hunted across a thousand miles of contaminated badlands by the Shadowed Hand, the Dominion's elite intelligence corps. Elder Warden Matthias has named Levi specifically. The only man with the discipline, the endurance, and the wolf that Kaelari trackers will follow. Levi accepts. But the mission is complicated by one detail no one warned him about. Sari is out there. A woman who crossed an ocean, survived a shipwreck, and walked through frozen wilds to find a community worth fighting for. She carries intelligence that could save Northwatch, or doom it. She never arrived. Two paths. One heading south with the archive. One heading north with the truth. Levi can't walk both. Accompanied by a scribe who has never held a blade and a ranger who wants to strike before he thinks, Levi descends into the deep badlands, where the Reckoning's poison has reshaped the earth itself. Rock-wyrms hunt by vibration. Spore-fields drift across poisoned flats. And somewhere in the dark, a commander named Draven is building a net, closing every road, locking every door. The archive must survive. The knowledge must endure. The fire must be carried south until it reaches soil where it can grow. The Archive of the Faithful is Book 1 of The Dominion Series, a four-book saga of faith, freedom, and the cost of remembering what the world wants you to forget.