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The Keys of Alkond: Part One

This science fiction, dystopian, fantasy novel is available now (as of September 27th, 2026)!

One journal. Six individuals. A forest that wants them dead. 

The Seven Deadly Sins destroyed the world generations ago. Pride, thinking only she knew how to fix what the others had done, left a journal behind that some now see as only a death sentence. Carrying the same journal that led to her mother’s death, seventeen year-old Lia Dempsy assembles an unlikely group of a wanted thief, an ex-soldier, a dying survivor, a runaway ladies maid, and a knowledge-obsessed chronicler in a desperate attempt to restore what was lost. Their journey leads them into the Forest of Alkond, which is overrun with genetically engineered monsters created by Envy. But with conflicting motives pulling the group apart, they’ll have to survive each other before they have any hope of making it out of Alkond with their lives. If Pride’s journal is wrong, the forest will become their grave. If it’s right, the truth behind Alkond may be worse than its monsters.