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The Blade and the Betrayal

Book 1 in The Assassins’ Order

He was ordered to kill children. He refused. That was the last order he ever took. Acre, 1189. Malek al-Aswad is everything the Knights Templar made him: disciplined, obedient, lethal. Then his commander orders a village put to the sword, and Malek hesitates. The hesitation costs him everything. Branded a traitor, he is left in the desert to die. The men who save him are the ones he spent his life hunting. In the mountain fortress of Masyaf, the Assassins teach him to unmake himself. Silence instead of steel. Patience instead of prayer. But when they send him back to Acre, Malek uncovers something worse than the massacre he fled. Templar gold is arming both sides of the Crusade, and the men behind it have never been seen. Rejected by the Order that raised him. Never fully trusted by the one that saved him. If he wants justice, he will have to become something neither side has a name for.

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Publication date: July 28, 2026

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