The First Sin by Cheyenne Brammah
Blurb:
In the sweeping expanse of the Årdrakin Empire, the people fight and die for honor as elite warriors of the galaxy. But long ago, a prophecy was spoken that presaged the apocalypse. Everyone knows and fears the truth: one day, the empire will fall.
Tårik is a guard for small, independent Clan Tsinna. Instead of pondering the end of his civilization, Tårik’s greatest concern is maintaining his honor while escorting a group of impertinent dignitaries across the treacherous Barren Gale. When the Mother Goddess speaks a passage from the prophecy to him, he has the good sense to be frightened, but he doesn’t heed the significance of Her visit.
Then disaster strikes, and Tårik is branded as an exile, leaving him with no home, no honor, and no future. Forced into a desperate struggle for survival, all Tårik can focus on is living just one more day until luck—or maybe fate—gives him the opportunity to join a new clan. But even this is fraught with danger and uncertainty, and it takes him to an inhospitable world far from the empire where survival seems all but impossible.
Faced with new challenges, including trying to navigate first contact with the low-tech locals, Tårik believes the prophecy can’t reach him. Yet it continues to loom, signaling that his fate and the fate of the empire are irrevocably entwined.
Book Title: The First Sin (All Our Sins Book One)
Author: Cheyenne Brammah
Cover Artist: Jeff Brown
Word Count: 160,600
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Science Fantasy
Release Date: October 23, 2025
Available Formats: eBook, Paperback, Hardcover
Trigger Warnings:
Abduction
Chronic pain
Death of animals and people, including murder
Depression, grief, and mental distress
Drug use and addiction
Familial rejection
Interspecies cannibalism
Medical procedures (non-consensual)
Poverty
Pregnancy and birth
References to sexual assault
References to sibling death
References to suicide
Ritual sacrifice of a person
Sensuality (consensual and not)
Sex (consensual)
Slavery
Torture
Violence, blood, and gore, including branding and mutilation
Vomiting
Vulgar language, including discrimination and fantasy slurs
Author Bio:
Cheyenne Brammah, also known as Iron Dragon, is a science fiction and fantasy author who “torments her characters in ways reminiscent of George R R Martin”. She’s had a pen in hand for most of her life and loves character-driven stories that are epic in scope and complexity. The First Sin is her debut novel.
When she’s not writing or reading, Cheyenne dyes yarn, crochets, knits, plays video games with her wonderful husband Mathew, and dabbles in nature photography. She lives in beautiful Cochrane, Alberta, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
