Rain fell so hard it seemed the sky had shattered. High between two black mountains, a hanging bridge screamed in the storm, its ropes twisting, its wooden…

The battlefield smelled of rain, blood, and betrayal. Dark clouds rolled across the northern coast of Eldermere while thousands of soldiers clashed beneath the walls of Ashcroft…

The first thing Kael learned about fear was that it did not always look like terror. Sometimes it looked like laughter. Cruel laughter. The kind that echoed…

The sacred eagle had not touched a living soul in ninety-seven years. So when it descended through the cold cathedral mist and landed on the shoulder of…

The first thing the boy felt was pain. Not the sharp kind. Not the kind that came from a blade. This pain had lived with him for…

But another gigantic wave suddenly rose behind them like a black wall of water. The boy turned. His eyes widened. The wave towered above them. Twenty feet…

Because the kingdom’s greatest nightmare… had just recognized its true master. For several long seconds— nobody moved. Rain continued hammering the fortress stones. Thunder rolled across the…

The storm swallowed the battlefield roads in darkness. Rain crashed endlessly across the muddy cliffs outside the kingdom walls. War wagons rolled through the swampy ground beneath…

The royal throne hall stood beneath cold silver torchlight. Heavy shadows covered the towering stone walls while dozens of elite royal guards slowly surrounded a chained prisoner…