Keeper Chronicles (Tamar Sloan)

The relics did not stay buried with the old king. The Grail, the Chalice, the sword drawn from stone — each still burns with the light that made Camelot, and each still needs a hand to guard it. In Tamar Sloan's Keeper Chronicles, that inheritance falls to the living: young people who discover, often at the worst possible moment, that an ancient charge runs in their blood and that the loving of the wrong person may be exactly what the vow requires. The world unfolds across four linked runs — Keepers of the Grail, Keepers of the Light, Keepers of the Chalice, and Keepers of Excalibur — written by Sloan with Ivy Lane and V. P. Allasander. Each takes one Arthurian talisman as its heart and follows a fresh Keeper drawn into its protection, so the shelf reads as a single mythology told in four movements. This is Arthur pitched to a younger, more intimate key: legend threaded through first love, duty measured against desire, the quiet dread of a fate you did not choose. Newcomers should begin with Keepers of the Grail, the foundation run, and let the relics gather from there.