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Most days, Favored Peleguin and Healer Beliam get along well. Sure, priest and physician have their differences of opinion, but their friendship was always based on a sense of respect and mutual tolerance.Today, Father Peleguin presides over Beliam's execution.As if watching his friend die were not enough to bear, Father Peleguin fears Beliam may be in the right after all. The death toll rises in Dawnshire, and the church's magical supply of Kes grows...

Keevan's Persuader training is tested against the Rhetan rebellion festering in Issamere's catacombs. Not only are Issamere's starving poor driven to the point of desperation against the Etrendi, but they have a mysterious financier with access to powerful Danica weapons. Keevan's elemental vision grants him a vital tool in tracking the deadly cargo, but openly marks him as a target to Etrendi and Rhetan alike.In the quest for truth about the enemy's...

There are few wounds which cut deeper than a mother losing her infant son. Kristina's husband running off to hunt living corpses didn't help matters much either. No matter the day or the hour, her thoughts drift to the small grave tucked beneath the fledgling oak tree in the south field.Then her husband returns home with a boy, who is stained with blood, and touched by mysterious forces. But will this child be a salve for her open wound, or drive...

Lucian's dreams are haunted by his mother's reported death years before. His waking hours are centered on serving his clan and making his father proud. But when a traitor strikes at the heart of their village, Lucian's magic develops into something else entirely. The tribesman call it the work of the devil, Shey'tan, but his new friend Dara calls it something else entirely.Lucian must choose to live a lie and remain with his people, or wander the...

Prince Labek's people face extinction. The barbarian tribes struck as one, cutting down the capital city and his entire family in a matter of a few bloody hours. Now all that remain is a small number of survivors desperate for a power no enemy can match. But the 'Binding Trial' requires two candidates and if finding a powerful princess weren't issue enough, the price of failure will include the death of every remaining person Labek holds dear.

Charged with the task of secretly escorting the infant child, Keevan, to safety, Captain Cahlder thinks his early retirement an easy thing to earn. But an enemy ambush scatters even the best laid plans to the wind.

In the epic conclusion to the 'Assassin's Rising' Series, a new Varadour Remnant emerges. Atacherous demands a contest of arms before the entire realm. Kaltor must prove his worth again, lest his followers be butchered for supporting him against the devious King.He must also face the Venom Queen, Meriska, who specializes in untraceable poisons. Earning such a woman's respect challenges even the bravest of men, but she's also his fiancé's motherBut...

In her last moments, the Destroyer revealed a great secret in the heart of Levarion's King, Taleveer. A dark truth no true Battleborn of Levarion can let stand. But now Kaltor walks as any other Battleborn, without his Remnant power to sustain him.Fractured allegiances, broken oaths and desperate escapes hurl Kaltor back into Levarion's heart. Family loyalties will burn. True love will turn to stone. Taleveer's greatest ally surfaces for the former-Remnant's...

The Destroyer's taint thrives in Shaylis' western mountains, weaving her influence into nature and man alike. The fleeing malagian and felshaw soldiers have little chance of survival. Her ranks recover all too quickly.But a bright ray of hope appears. Gereth has discovered a way to track the Destroyer's whereabouts. Her path leads them into the heart of those tainted hills, towards a device of ancient power. The battle to reach her is costly, but...

An ancient evil stirs in the hills beyond Shaylis. The damned soul's influence touches rich and poor alike, twisting the people against their fellows and coating the streets in terror.As if surviving his assassin training weren't a tall enough task, now Kaltor Stratagar faces a race against time. The creature's strength grows by the hour, compelling more souls to her cause. If Kaltor doesn't find a means of breaking her hold upon the minds of men,...