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Overview

Ten years after the Hollow War, the First City is still learning how to survive peace.

Humans, Veyr, and the Remembered now walk the same streets, rebuilding what war nearly destroyed. But beneath the restored towers, repaired roads, and quiet routines of ordinary life, something ancient has begun to stir.

Aria Voss has carried a secret since childhood: a perfect black sphere taken from a chamber no one else could find. For ten years, it remained silent. Then a silver crack appears across its surface, and Aria is drawn once more into the presence of an ancient being tied to mysteries older than the world itself.

Its warning is simple, and terrifying.

Something beneath the First City is waking.

It is called the First Question.

As Aria begins searching for answers, she uncovers missing records, sealed surveys, forgotten names, and hidden passages buried deep beneath the city's foundations. What begins as one girl's private secret soon becomes a dangerous investigation involving those closest to her, including Elias, Mercy, and her mother, Lysa. Together, they must follow a trail left by people who understood that some truths were too dangerous to be carried alone.

But they are not the only ones searching.

A forgotten doctrine has taken root in the margins of old records and unwitnessed spaces. It teaches that witnesses are burdens, that relation is weakness, and that the cleanest answer is the one reached alone. If those who follow it reach the First Question first, they may turn the oldest mystery in existence into something hungry enough to reshape the world.

The First Question is an epic fantasy of ancient secrets, buried cities, cosmic mystery, and the dangerous beauty of asking why. It is a story about loneliness, memory, family, and the truth that some questions cannot be survived alone.

In a city built over forgotten answers, Aria must decide what kind of person she will become: one who possesses the truth, or one brave enough to share the burden of seeking it.

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9798183507591
  • ISBN-10: 9798183507591
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: June 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.35 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.43 pounds
  • Page Count: 546

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