In Mildaresh, Karliana discovers the deadly cost of defying a tyrant. Drawn into the League’s deadly purpose, she must navigate shifting alliances and hidden agendas. Only through great personal sacrifice can she hope to save the city she loves.Meanwhile, Ash continues his struggle to understand the Song. Unsure of his role and haunted by visions from the past, he fears the mysterious power will destroy him before he can unlock its secrets. Kep throws herself into the League’s caus...

Kep is determined to save her League allies from the savage arena of Kara-fell. But trust is a risky business: her pirate companions are rogues, and the smuggler who holds her friends captive has his own mysterious agenda. Hidden beneath it all lies a betrayal that could break Kep’s heart — and shatter everything she believes.Meanwhile, Ash, Sarin, and Ordelle race against time to reach her. Across a mist-shrouded land of ancient secrets, Ash wrestles with the strange power of the ...

Ash was never meant to be a hero – just a kitchen slave. But with strange music filling his head and his best friend’s life hanging in the balance, he embarks on a quest he doesn’t understand. Fleeing the only home they’ve ever known, Ash and Kep race across the wilderness, pursued by Kep’s relentless tracker and an unnamed evil.As their enemies close in, the mystery of the Taelstone deepens. Ash’s connection to the Song grows stronger — and more perilous. All magic comes at a cost...

Beyond the hidden city, evil is brewing. It is waiting - for them.Ash doesn't know what terrifies him most, losing his mind to the Song, or losing his best friend, Kep. While Ash struggles to unlock ancient memories and lost secrets, Kep follows her own destiny - to become a League warrior and join the fight against the evil Melk. But Kep's desire for vengeance could be her undoing. Caught in a world full of mystery, secrets and betrayal, the friends are once more ...

Ash isn't the Chosen One — he isn’t even supposed to learn the Song. And he’s certainly no hero - he’s just a kitchen slave. But when the Malshorne appears in Mildaresh, everything changes. First Ash gets caught up in the mysterious quest, then an awful series of events leaves him no choice but to act. He’s terrified, but he’s made an oath, and he can’t abandon his spirited friend Kep to her dreadful fate. Together, the teenagers flee Mildaresh. But can they really outrun the most ...

Ash isn't the Chosen One — he isn’t even supposed to learn the Song. And he’s certainly no hero — he’s just a kitchen slave. But he can’t abandon his feisty friend Kep to her cruel fate. Together they must fulfil the quest, but will the slave tracker kill them first? Or will the Song drive Ash to madness? Haunted by strange visions of the past, the friends are swept into a world of peril and adventure. As ancient history collides with the present, a terrible evil is revealed. What strange ...

As his men are slaughtered around him, legendary Irish warrior Finian O'Melaghlin is held captive by the despised English Lord Rardove. Struggling to break free, Finian finds aid from an unlikely source: the beautiful Senna de Valery, who is also trying to escape Rardove's bloodthirsty grasp. Risking both their lives, Senna releases Finian from his shackles so they can both flee, but their plight has just begun. . .Seeking safe refuge, Finian and Senna have only each other to depen...

The unassuming Sky Plains healer Gilfeather is drawn into the adventure of a lifetime, as he joins a warrior and a sorceress on a quest to overcome a ruthless dunmagicker whose lust for dark power places the entirety of the Glory Isles in danger.

New York Times-bestselling author Mercedes Lackey's Herald Spy series, set in the beloved fantasy world of ValdemarMags was once an enslaved orphan living a harsh life in the mines, until the King's Own Herald discovered his talent and trained him as a spy. Now a Herald in his own right, at the newly established Heralds' Collegium, Mags has found a supportive family, including his Companion Dallen.Although normally a Herald in his first year of Whi...

General Wyl Thirsk of Morgravia has endured unimaginable loss at the hands of King Celimus - his best friend murdered, his sister imprisoned, and his mentor condemned to death. Now, Celimus has set his sights on the neighbouring realm of Briavel and its inexperienced Queen Valentyna, pressuring her into a doomed political marriage.Wyl is desperate to save the woman he loves from this hideous fate, but destiny intervenes. Trapped by a gift from the witch, Myrren, Wyl must embark on ...

General Wyl Thirsk of Morgravia has died many times . . . But thanks to the miraculous gift bestowed upon him by the witch Myrren, Wyl lives on - though greatly altered and unrecognisable. Only by assuming the throne will he be freed from the dark spell that has both cursed and sustained him.But Wyl's time is running out. His beloved Queen Valentyna will soon be wed to his most hated enemy, the ruthless King Celimus - and despite the impending nuptials, war threatens to engulf thei...

Renegade sorcerer Raythe Vyre went off the edge of the map, seeking riches and redemption . . . but he has found the impossible: a vanished civilisation - and the threat of eternal damnation!Chasing a dream of wealth and freedom, Raythe Vyre's ragtag caravan of refugees from imperial oppression went off the map, into the frozen wastes of the north. What they found there was beyond all their expectations: Rath Argentium, the legendary city of the long-vanished Aldar...