The Chronicles of Die Herrschast: Book 6 - Prevention Harvest

What would you do if the law told you that surrendering your child was necessary for everyone else's survival? Viren has laws for everything. Its terraces are measured. Its harvests are counted. Its families are recorded. For generations, its people have trusted those laws because order protected them. Then children begin disappearing. Emergency clauses are invoked. Families are reassigned. Children are removed from learning halls and sent for placement. Records are filed, seals applied, and every sacrifice is declared necessary to prevent famine. But Kael Vorrin and Seris Valein begin following the numbers. Children are being taken before orders are issued. Villages are emptied before decisions are supposedly made. Beyond Viren's authority, Kael and Seris discover what words like placement, reassignment, and Harvest are hiding. The children are not being relocated. They are being processed. As Kael and Seris follow them into Red Hand territory, the people of Viren begin asking the most dangerous question a perfect system can face: Where are our children? For Tharion Vel'Syrr, that question is personal. Taken from his own mother as a child, he refuses to watch another generation suffer the same fate. Beneath Viren's terraces, magic hides children. Forgotten tunnels become escape routes. Parents become smugglers and guides. An underground resistance begins to grow. Soon the choice no longer belongs to rulers. It belongs to the people. Parents stand in the road. Villages refuse to surrender their children. Even some Giants begin questioning their orders. And Viren discovers there is one thing its perfect system never learned to measure. Refusal. THE PREVENTION OF HARVEST is a dark epic fantasy of resistance, magic, family, political corruption, hidden societies, and war, where ordinary people discover that a law can be perfectly written, perfectly followed, and still be wrong.