Series · 1 book

The Uninherited Earth

By Duncan Durnell

Epic fantasy where exact work changes the shape of war.

Start with The Marching Border

Every shortcut has a cost, and every cost stays on the page.

The Marching Border by Duncan Durnell — cover

About the series

The Uninherited Earth is a series about a dead god’s vacant border and the people who inherit its consequences: maps, logistics, oaths and battlefield decisions beside the private costs of survival.

It begins with The Marching Border, in which a surveyor discovers that the lines she draws can fold roads and carry armies.

What you’re in for

  • Epic fantasy
  • Magic with measurable costs
  • Battles and logistics
  • A larger war

Reading order

Read in order; each book is a complete movement of one closed arc.

  1. The Marching Border by Duncan Durnell — cover
    Book 1:

    The Marching Border

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    When the boundary god dies, surveyor Tessa Venn discovers that the lines she draws can fold roads and carry armies. Each use of ink, oath, and measurement damages the land and costs her something lasting. Trapped between an invading army and a divided valley, she must turn exact work into a weapon before the eastern gate falls.

About the author

Duncan Durnell

Epic fantasy

“Epic fantasy where exact work changes the shape of war.”

Duncan Durnell writes epic fantasy about maps, oaths, battle, and the human cost of making a line hold. The Marching Border begins The Uninherited Earth.