A Day for Dead Saints (Testaments of the Forsaken Book 1)

When the world forgets your dead, remembering becomes an act of rebellion.

Veynar’s sister is dead, yet no one remembers her death the way he does. When he refuses to let her be erased, his family, mentors, and friends insist that grief has fractured his mind. They tell him memory cannot be trusted—and that questioning the past only deepens the wound.

Driven by a truth no one else will acknowledge, Veynar begins to uncover what his sister stumbled into before she died. Ancient gods still walk among mortals, shaping belief, bending memory, and settling old rivalries through human lives. Their influence is quiet but absolute, and the city of Brenwick has become a gathering point for their long-simmering conflict.

As Veynar presses deeper into their designs, he learns that memory itself can be rewritten, that devotion is enforced as often as it is chosen, and that defiance carries a cost no one escapes unchanged. Each step toward justice tightens the gods’ attention on him, forcing him to confront how much of his grief is his own—and how much has been shaped by powers that do not care who they break.

To uncover the truth and protect those he loves, Veynar must hunt his prey beneath the notice of living gods, knowing that the price of remembering the dead may be more than he is willing to pay.

A Day for Dead Saints is an epic fantasy grounded in emotional consequence, where grief is not a weakness but a force powerful enough to challenge gods. With its mythic scope, morally complex choices, and deeply personal stakes, Ryan Kirk delivers a story that lingers—inviting readers into a world where memory itself becomes an act of resistance, and the cost of defiance is measured in what the heart refuses to surrender.