The Burned Name laid open across the Lullaby Map of Gyra, its cover showing Everett beneath a sky split between gold and storm-blue.

In a world where
Religion has been
burned from history…

Book One The Maelum Trilogy

Buy The Burned Name
The Burned Name laid open across the Lullaby Map of Gyra, its cover showing Everett beneath a sky split between gold and storm-blue.

Book One The Maelum Trilogy

In a world where
Religion has been
burned from history…

Buy The Burned Name
Everett Dwyer, rendered in gold linework against a bare field, ragged cloak and travel-worn boots.

Book One of
The Maelum Trilogy

When an eyeless family staggers out of Wulsvil Forest, Everett Dwyer assumes a wild beast took their eyes. He soon learns a worse truth: they blinded themselves to escape something coming. Something they will not name.

The only clue is a dead word. It survives in the town’s old black ledger, yet no one can tell Everett what it means. It belongs to no language. It has no history. It is as though the world agreed, all at once, to forget.

That word is Religion.

The answer to what is coming lies in the word the world destroyed. Everett must recover its meaning before the Expatria burn him with it.

Everett Dwyer, rendered in gold linework against a bare field, ragged cloak and travel-worn boots.

Book One of The Maelum Trilogy

When an eyeless family staggers out of Wulsvil Forest, Everett Dwyer assumes a wild beast took their eyes. He soon learns a worse truth: they blinded themselves to escape something coming. Something they will not name.

The only clue is a dead word. It survives in the town’s old black ledger, yet no one can tell Everett what it means. It belongs to no language. It has no history. It is as though the world agreed, all at once, to forget.

That word is Religion.

The answer to what is coming lies in the word the world destroyed. Everett must recover its meaning before the Expatria burn him with it.

Across the World

What readers are saying

old school epic fantasy with modern pacing

Jess

Jess

@between.two.bookends

★★★★★

“A sweeping, epic fantasy, with a little romance, that had me smiling, laughing aloud and, on a few occasions, crying. The magic system has so much potential.”

Crystal

Crystal

@crystalsbookishlife

★★★★★

“Belongs in every fantasy reader’s library. You can’t help but keep turning pages to find out what’s going to happen to these dear characters. The prose is beautiful and highly consumable.”

Denver Cole Binion

Denver Cole Binion

@denvercolebinion author of the Sun Wolves series

★★★★★

“A riveting and distinctly, wonderfully human tale. This is, simply put, an astonishing debut novel from an immensely talented indie author. I feel part of something truly special.”

The World of Gyra

The world that agreed to forget

Gyra is a world shaped as much by what has been erased as by what remains. Its cities, forests and old roads stand upon a history no living person can fully explain. Beyond the accepted story, the Expatria preserve fragments of truths the world once chose to destroy.

Everett’s search begins with a single dead word, but the answer reaches across Gyra. Old divisions are tightening, forgotten powers are stirring, and something the eyeless refuse to name is drawing closer.

SBK

The author who created Gyra and The Burned Name

Sean Bobby Kerr is an Australian fantasy author writing large-scale stories about memory, belief, power and the truths people choose to bury. The Maelum Trilogy combines the atmosphere, scope and immersion of classic epic fantasy with the momentum of modern storytelling.

He writes from Sydney and is currently bringing Everett’s journey through Gyra to completion.

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Begin with The Burned Name, step into Gyra through a free chapter, or continue Everett’s journey in The Scroll of Recall.

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