THE WESTERN WORLD IS BURNING... Even as cities and cathedrals are tumbling, their defenders crucified by the invading Merduks, the Faithful war among themselves

A ROYAL REBELLION... When the power-mad Himerius won himself enough support to have foreigners and magicians put to death, Lofantyr, Abeleyn and Mark – three

For the first time in recorded history, the ferocious city-states of the Macht now acknowledge a single man as their overlord. Corvus, the strange, brilliant bo

It is twenty-three years since a Macht army fought its way home from the heart of the Asurian Empire. The man who came to lead that army, Rictus, is now a hard-

Ambition runs strongly in the Kressind family: Trassan is building a mighty ship to navigate an uncrossed ocean; Rel is banished to a vital frontier; Garten bal