Tori Whitebirch

Tori Whitebirch writes dark fantasy for readers who want their worlds to have weight — where magic leaves marks, power has a price, and the people at the bottom of every system are the ones who understand it best. His fiction is set in Crestfall, a continent of five regions held together by uneasy peace, ministerial control, and a king whose shadow reaches further than his throne. Beneath that order runs something older and less governable — a crystalline force buried in the heart of the world's highest mountain, breaking open those it chooses and leaving them changed, hunted, and dangerous. Before the Reckoning is his first published works set in Crestfall — stories of debt, survival, and what people do when every door has already closed. They are not the world's first stories. They are not its last. Tori believes that the most honest fantasy is written from the bottom tier up.