The Kashani Lie

A single erased mountain pass could doom an empire. Darian Shirazi, imperial cartographer of the vast Sarvashi Empire, uncovers a two-century-old deception buried in the realm's most trusted maps—a navigable route through the western mountains, deliberately hidden by the most powerful family at court. With his assistants murdered and assassins on his trail, Darian must carry the truth across a thousand miles of hostile territory to reach the Emperor before the lie becomes the empire's epitaph.