The Keystone Cycle · Book One
Load Bearing
Everyone wants to be a hero. Someone has to hold it up.
Opens Amazon.com, your own country’s store. Paperback $11.99 →
On Awakening Day, everyone in Vantage gets a Class. Blades. Flame. Beasts. Something worth cheering for.
Kell Varro gets MAINTENANCE.
A support class nobody has picked in two hundred years. No combat skills. No damage numbers. Just repair, reinforce, and upkeep — the chores the System hands out to people it has given up on.
The city laughs. Kell goes to work anyway.
Because the heroes crossing the Ninth Bridge are standing on something. The wards holding back the Deep are maintained by someone. And every stat sheet in Vantage has one line nobody ever reads: STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY.
Turns out the most dangerous person in a city isn't the one who can break things. It's the one everything is resting on.
- cozy progression
- crafting
- underpowered class
- slow burn
Before you start
What to expect
- Length
- 32,000 words · about 2.5 hours · 113 pages
From Chapter One
Keep reading, free →There is a particular quality of silence you only get from four thousand people all deciding at once not to laugh yet.
You’ll like it if you liked
Legends & Latteslow stakes, real craft, and a found family
Beware of Chickengrowing stronger by working, not by killing
Cradlea weak start, a system to climb, and stubbornness