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The Chronicles of Arghost — Volume I

The Second Rising

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“A Seer’s prophecy. A staff that demands a price. And a truth about her own origins that will prove harder to face than the darkness itself.”

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The Story

When a Seer's prophecy names Niama as the only person who can stop the darkness consuming Arghost, the life she knew in the forests of Mistwood ends. The Staff of Light is the only weapon powerful enough — but claiming it will require crossing a continent at war, gathering what the sacred potion demands, and trusting people she has no reason to trust.

Her companions are unlikely at best. Coseo, enigmatic and watchful, whose motives are never quite what they appear. Prince Rohan of Abras, haunted by loss and bound by duty. Kesaahn, court Magika in the service of Rohan's father, guarding secrets that could unravel everything.

Each carries their own shadows. Each will be tested beyond breaking.

And at the end of it — when the darkness has been faced and the cost has been paid — Niama will learn the truth of who she is. Where she came from. Whose blood runs through her veins.

It will not be the ending she expected.

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Praise for The Second Rising

★★★★★

An absolute tour de force of dark fantasy. Parsons has built a world so rich and so dangerous that I was afraid to turn the page — and couldn’t stop myself from doing so.

— Amazon Reviewer

★★★★★

An absolute tour de force of dark fantasy. Parsons has built a world so rich and so dangerous that I was afraid to turn the page — and couldn’t stop myself from doing so.

— Amazon Reviewer

★★★★★

An absolute tour de force of dark fantasy. Parsons has built a world so rich and so dangerous that I was afraid to turn the page — and couldn’t stop myself from doing so.

— Amazon Reviewer

Reading Order

The Chronicles of Arghost

Book 1

The Second Rising

Book 1

Shadows and Salvation

COMING
SOON

Book 3

TBA

From The Author

A Note From Derren

The Second Rising began as a question I couldn’t shake: what does it cost a world to survive its own salvation? I wanted to write a fantasy where the chosen one didn’t want to be chosen — where the weight of destiny felt like a punishment, not a gift.

Arghost is a world I’ve been building in my head for over a decade. “The power stones, the First War, the silence of Athris — all of it existed long before Niama did. When she finally walked into that world, I knew I’d found my way in.

I hope it pulls you under the way it pulled me.

— Derren Parsons

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