Cyranzelle

Cyranzelle

A debt can be repaid. A debt that was designed, however, only tightens the more faithfully it is serviced.

In the small harbor town of Cyranzelle, notary Cassidy Trumun has spent six years quietly keeping the accounts of the Sanctuary Expedition, a crusading order older than the city itself. Then, one Thursday morning, a rider ducks under the laundry lines with a summons - a single sheet of paper, drafted with a completeness that should never have troubled anyone, and that changes everything.

Sent to Ballencian to assist in negotiations for the Order's unification with the crown, Cassidy expects nothing more than clauses and seals. But a single name, glimpsed once in the margin of a royal ledger - the Procurators - sends him down a path he cannot climb back out of. Piece by careful piece, he begins to understand that he is not sitting at a negotiating table. He is standing at a scaffold.

Everyone believes King Generic II is dismantling a two-hundred-year-old order to erase his own debts. Only one notary, tracing dates that shouldn't align and a signature that appears once too often, begins to ask a more dangerous question: did this debt really grow this large by accident?

The man who holds the evidence has no power. The men who hold the power will not listen. What Cassidy uncovers is not a conspiracy in any sense he can point to and name - it is something far sturdier: an institution, built so that no single hand ever needs to sign the order, and no single conscience ever needs to carry the weight of it alone.

Cyranzelle is a novel about the powerlessness of the man who keeps the record - and about why he keeps it anyway. A story of a man who finally holds the whole truth, understands he can change nothing with it, and keeps writing until the very last page regardless.

One-line jacket copy

He sailed to investigate a king's debts. He found a pope's design.

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