The Sovereign Line

Some lines are crossed only once.Nora Miller was supposed to come home with coffee and a ridiculous purple dragonfly for the kitchen window. Instead, she is killed in a collision, and her husband Silas wakes to discover that the man responsible has already crossed into Golan-a City of Refuge where consequence stops at the border.The record is clear. The claim is open. The system has spoken: no action available.Elias Thorne, Chief Registrar of the College of Arbiters, has spent his career maintaining the machinery that makes sanctuary lawful. He knows the rules, the records, and the limits of justice better than anyone. But when Silas asks the one question the system cannot safely answer, Thorne finds himself too close to evidence no one wants exposed.Golan's protection depends on a legal truth the public record says is settled. If that truth is false, then sanctuary is not refuge. It is a trap.Now Thorne must be isolated, discredited, and neutralized before he uncovers what the evidence may reveal. The system is designed to contain anyone who poses a risk.Except the man who knows the rules because he helped write them.