The road away from home is rarely simple, especially when you’re carrying the weight of a legendary legacy—and a mandated babysitter in polished armor. In Passage 02: Pilgrims and Pawns, the journey truly begins. Fresh off the removal of her Mako-dampening restraints, Kimya Beowulf steps beyond the safety of her family’s estate and straight into a world brimming with rising tension, military propaganda, and paranoid mobs. But as political unrest boils over in the mountain tow

Bound in magic-dampening alloy, locked in the back of a Saint dropship, Kimya Beowulf knows one thing for certain: weakness gets you killed. Her captor, Cadet Kaelen Voss, thinks he has everything under control. Cold, arrogant, and entirely unimpressed by the nobility, Kaelen is just executing orders—delivering a high-value package and collecting his paycheck. But delivering a Beowulf is never a simple assignment, especially when the drop-off leads straight to the doorstep of