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A Bow Too Heavy
The hunt broke. The road answered.
Some worlds are built behind walls.
This one survives by never standing still.
On the endless steppe, horses carry families, roads carry news, and every fire may belong to strangers by morning.
When a mounted hunt fails, one boy is forced onto those roads long before he is ready.
Kharu only wanted to ride correctly. Keep his pony in line. Keep his hands low. Earn one hard nod from the man whose bow no child could draw.
Then the circle breaks.
By nightfall, Kharu has the bow, a knife too small for war, and no safe fire willing to claim what he has become.
The Road-Kin find him half-wild by water. They know how to hide dangerous things. They know how to feed a lie until it walks on its own legs. They know that mercy can keep a child alive and still put a price on him.
But the road is already being watched.
A Dargai wedding is gathering clans, horses, insults, debts, and men who count useful things before they ask names. Kharu and Yuldan become too visible to remain only boys.
And beyond the wedding fires, the Host is waiting to decide what survival is worth.
A Bow Too Heavy is Book 1 of The Road of Many Fires—a dark steppe fantasy saga of horses, road-kin, broken clans, and the dangerous cost of being saved.