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“Up here, we are forever children…”

Revik, infamous Sword of the seer world, lost everything when his enemies destroyed the mind of his wife, Allie, and stole their unborn child.

Doomed to fight the last battle alone, Revik hunkers down in post-apocalyptic San Francisco, preparing for that inevitable war.

Aware of the slim odds of his own survival, he longs only to rescue his child––even if that means killing her to prevent the torment he endured as the Dreng’s slave.

Unfortunately, the Dreng know his weaknesses all too well. Revik might be the most powerful seer the world has ever seen, but even with the help of his son, an increasingly powerful telekinetic in his own right, Revik can't see a way to saving his family… or a wife he loves more than life itself.

In a war against the forces of darkness, and the evil seer who raised him, brutalized him, and stole everything from him, the only way to win might be to destroy whatever’s left.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The seventh chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

The main relationship in this book is heterosexual, however this book has an explicit M/M relationship, as well. There are also quite a few bisexual characters.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Bridge”

“Up here, we are forever children…”

Revik, infamous Sword of the seer world, lost everything when his enemies destroyed the mind of his wife, Allie, and stole their unborn…

"I was now, officially, a real terrorist…”

After losing her husband, Allie fights to prevent the human and seer worlds from exploding into all-out war.

But her husband, Revik, isn’t really gone.

Instead he’s transformed into someone she barely knows.

Now they’re on opposites sides of a racial war––a war he wants to see play out, a war he’s ready for, and worse, one he’s already fighting.

Compromise with him might be impossible, but it also might be the only way she can save him from himself.

It might also be the only way to keep him from killing everyone she loves.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The third chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning romance that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

Slow burn. Fated Mates. Enemies to lovers. Forced marriage. Rejected mates.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Sword” (same series name)

"I was now, officially, a real terrorist…”

After losing her husband, Allie fights to prevent the human and seer worlds from exploding into all-out war.

But her husband,…

Everyone said to let her go.
To let the devil and her dark masters take her.
But he can’t do that.
He just can’t.

Everyone told him Cass couldn’t be saved.

All of them, even Allie and Jon, Cass’s childhood friends, believe she’s too far gone.

She chose the darkest of dark paths, betraying everyone who loved her, nearly killing her best friend, Allie, and destroying Allie’s mind in the process. After Cass became a minion of the dark being, Shadow, she nearly killed them all. After everything she put them through, the rest of their team mostly wants her dead.

But Balidor can’t bring himself to let her go.

Using his vast abilities and psychic training, he leads Cass through the darkness of her own mind, trying desperately to bring back the woman he loved before Shadow broke her.

SERIES NOTE: This is a Balidor and Cass companion novel to the Bridge and Sword world and takes place between books #8 and #9 in the main series.

Everyone said to let her go.
To let the devil and her dark masters take her.
But he can’t do that.
He just can’t.

Everyone told him Cass couldn’t be saved.

All of them,…

He appeared out of nowhere. He saved her life.
Allie Taylor harbored a fascination with seers for as long as she can remember. A second, psychic race discovered on Earth, seers are exotic, beautiful, hyper-sexual, dangerous as hell, and really danged expensive to own.

Unfortunately, a lot of the world doesn’t share Allie’s enthusiasm for them.

As more and more Seers appear on the streets of San Francisco where she lives, protests have broken out. Seers can’t venture into public without papers issued by their owners and a collar restraining their psychic sight, but that’s not enough to calm the anti-seer fanatics. They want all the Seers dead, or banished from the United States forever.

When Allie travels to New York to see her boyfriend’s band, she gets caught in a terrorist attack. She’s saved by a man she’s never seen before, a tall, mysterious stranger with pale, glass-like eyes and black hair, who seems to crop up everywhere she turns. Meanwhile, someone starts leaving her cryptic, vaguely threatening notes about the end of the world, and her boyfriend starts blowing her off for one of his lame band groupies.

Then things get a lot worse. A bizarre religious cult targets Allie for an end of the world ritual, and her visit to New York goes from bizarre to potentially fatal.

Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. An epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy series that gets dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “New York”

THE BRIDGE AND SWORD SERIES is a dark, gritty psychic warfare epic from a USA TODAY and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author. Set in an alternate version of Earth where a second race of beings called “Seers” live alongside humans, this is for fans of romantic, character-driven science fiction and fantasy worlds, filled with twists and turns and backstabbing betrayals, with heroes and villains who are often the same people.

He appeared out of nowhere. He saved her life.
Allie Taylor harbored a fascination with seers for as long as she can remember. A second, psychic race discovered on Earth, seers…

“In through the out door. Further down. Below…”

Allie and Revik race to rescue the remaining seers and humans on the Displacement List, a prophetic list of humans and seers meant to rebuild the world after the apocalypse.

Shadow, leader on Earth of dark beings known as “the Dreng,” wants nothing more than to eliminate every name listed. He systematically murders every one he finds. With the Dreng’s vast resources, their complete control over the remaining quarantine cities, and over the minds of most humans, Allie fears they’ve lost too many already.

Then a mysterious new player starts buying up List seers on the black market. Allie and Revik assume Shadow is behind that too, but instead of killing the seers immediately, as Shadow had done, the new buyer smuggles them into Dubai. As more and more Listers disappear into the walled off city, the most heavily guarded of all of Shadow’s enclaves, Revik and Allie wonder if maybe Shadow isn’t behind it at all.

Meanwhile, on the personal and political front, Allie’s world starts to unravel.

The people closest to her seem to be slowly turning against her, losing faith in her leadership, lying to her, even plotting against her.

Including––maybe especially––her own husband.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The eighth chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

The main relationship in this book is heterosexual, however the series has an explicit M/M relationship, and most of the characters are bisexual.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Prophet”

“In through the out door. Further down. Below…”

Allie and Revik race to rescue the remaining seers and humans on the Displacement List, a prophetic list of humans and seers…

“And Death will live among them in the guise of a child…”

They call her The Bridge. She leads them now. The reality of that, of leading a people and culture she barely understands, would be daunting even without what the myths say about her.

As it is, they look at her, and see the end of the world.

More unnerving still, they want to follow her there.

She’s married now. She still doesn’t know what that means either, not being married to a Seer, and certainly not to her actual husband, who’s never exactly been an easy person to read. A new set of rules around Seer culture and her relationship with the infamous Seer infiltrator, Dehgoies Revik, nearly destroys her marriage before it can really begin.

Then the boy appears.

A sociopath with all of the energetic markings of Syrimne, a deadly telekinetic who killed thousands during World War I, he doesn’t appear to have aged in one hundred years.

Worse, he thinks Allie belongs to him.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The second chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Shield”

“And Death will live among them in the guise of a child…”

They call her The Bridge. She leads them now. The reality of that, of leading a people and culture she barely…

“For her Light shines the brightest, in the very Darkest of times…”

Shadow’s deadly disease now blankets the planet.

Everything points to the apocalypse, with earthquakes, rising tides, hurricanes, and New York now a military-run lockdown guarded by rich humans.

To top it off, Allie’s husband, Revik, is acting really strange––and everyone seems to know why but her.

Sociopathic seer Ditrini tells Allie Shadow is coming for her next. Only this time, he’s bringing his new pet intermediary, War, the fourth of the Four.

War is hell-bent on bringing the end of human race for good––and Allie along with it.

Unfortunately, she’s also one of Allie’s closest friends.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The sixth chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

The main relationship in this book is heterosexual, however this book has an explicit M/M relationship, as well. There are also quite a few bisexual characters.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “War”

“For her Light shines the brightest, in the very Darkest of times…”

Shadow’s deadly disease now blankets the planet.

Everything points to the apocalypse, with earthquakes,…

Angular features. Freakishly tall, with pale, unnerving, colorless eyes. He moved unlike anyone I’d ever seen. He couldn’t possibly be human. He had to be one of them.

Allie only ever glimpsed Seers at a distance, usually in sex clubs, or on the leash of the wealthy and powerful of San Francisco. Fascinating, beautiful, deadly, Seers existed totally outside the sphere of ordinary humans.

You had to be rich to own a Seer. You had to be rich to get anywhere near one.

Allie’s more focused on getting her mom to a therapist, keeping her friend, Cass, out of crap relationships, and making enough money so they don’t lose the house. When Revik first shows up at the diner where she works, she assumes he’s just some weirdo with an odd fixation on her. But Revik tells her dark, anti-human Seers run everything, and they’ve targeted Allie.

They believe she will free their people from enslavement.

They believe she will kill all the humans.

They believe she will destroy the world.

Now she’s on the run, the police have her family and friends, and the only person left is an uncommunicative, probably-terrorist Seer with a frightening ability with a gun.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The first chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning romance that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.
Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Rook” (same series name)

Angular features. Freakishly tall, with pale, unnerving, colorless eyes. He moved unlike anyone I’d ever seen. He couldn’t possibly be human. He had to be one of them.

Allie…

“He’s a sociopath, brother Quay, so have a care…”

Feigran was a normal seer once. But that was a long time ago.

He had a family, a home, a sister. He remembers love. He remembers friendship, too. He remembers when his best friend betrayed him.

Now he is Terian, one of the highest-ranked seers in “The Org,” the feared dark seers working behind the scenes to enslave humanity.

Junior agent Quay knows nothing of Terian’s past. He struggles to climb the Org ranks when he meets Terian at a work camp in Brazil, and finds himself assigned to work under him.

When their top secret mission takes a peculiar twist, Quay realizes he’s caught up in something much bigger, something that might signal a whole new epoch in the war against humans. Worse, his dangerous new friend Terian stands at the heart of it, with a wrong to avenge and a debt to settle, and he might get all of them killed.

“He’s a sociopath, brother Quay, so have a care…”

Feigran was a normal seer once. But that was a long time ago.

He had a family, a home, a sister. He remembers love. He…

“I thought the two of you were scary individually.” He raised his voice against the wind. “Together, you’re worse. You know that, right? A lot worse, man.”

Plagued by prescient nightmares and with hostile seers on their trail, Allie and Revik set up camp in New York, along with the remnants of their alliance.

Then a human-killing virus strikes San Francisco.

Allie’s loved ones begin to disappear.

Allie and Revik are forced to make impossible choices: robbing banks, dealing with double agents, hunting assassins and spies, building a refugee camp out of a five-star hotel––fixing their marriage.

Meanwhile, Allie’s brother, Jon, is going through big changes of his own.

He and ex-rebel, Wreg, search for humans on a list marking them as key players in the apocalypse––an apocalypse which already seems to be underway.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The fifth chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

The main relationship in this book is heterosexual, however this book has an explicit M/M relationship, as well. There are also quite a few bisexual characters.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Knight”

“I thought the two of you were scary individually.” He raised his voice against the wind. “Together, you’re worse. You know that, right? A lot worse, man.”

Plagued by prescient…

For the light must die as we are reborn.
The stars must fall as the Thousand rise.
The end must come before the sun returns.

Myther armies pop up around the globe, murdering seers and humans, taking over quarantine cities.

Worse, the grisly, ritualistic murders aren’t just sadistic, but part of a millennia-long plan of the Dreng to leave Earth, destroying the planet and murdering most of its inhabitants in the process.

Allie and Revik have no time left to fix things between them - and no future left to put things off.

Cobbling together the last of their forces, they launch a final counter-offensive, teaming up with unlikely allies and using every weapon left at their disposal.

Only together with their entire dysfunctional “family” can they change the course of history and forge a new hope for both races.

In this final installment of the epic science-fantasy series, Allie and Revik fight their final war of all against all.

From USA TODAY and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author, a psychic warfare adventure set in a gritty alternate version of Earth. Contains strong romantic elements. Apocalyptic SciFi. Psychic Romance.

THE BRIDGE & SWORD SERIES is a dark, gritty science fiction and apocalyptic series with strong romantic elements, starring Alyson Taylor and her partner, dark and dangerous infiltrator, Dehgoies Revik. For fans of gritty, character-driven science fiction and fantasy worlds, filled with twists and turns and backstabbing betrayals, with heroes and villains who can be equally relatable (and sometimes the same people). The Bridge & Sword books span continents and historical periods as Allie and Revik try to save the human and seer races from destroying one another, and keep their friends and loved ones alive in the process.

The world is dying. Everyone feels it, and yet... no one knows.
They said that when the end was near, a Bridge would come, and lead them out of the darkness of that dying world.
My name is Allie Taylor, and I am that Bridge.

For the light must die as we are reborn.
The stars must fall as the Thousand rise.
The end must come before the sun returns.

Myther armies pop up around the globe, murdering…

He would be despised. By all of them, he would be despised.

The shadow of the Rooks hangs over Revik’s head, a constant reminder of the dark warrior he used to be.

Hidden away in monastic caves after he leaves the anti-human, terrorist seers, Revik no longer knows who he is, or what his life means.

Then a delegation of renowned holy warriors, the Adhipan, appears, asking for his help. Adhipan leader Balidor requests Revik personally, along with one of his top lieutenants, a disturbingly beautiful seer named Dalejem.

Revik’s first impulse is to say no. He says no, repeatedly, until they tell him it is Kali who needs saving––Kali, who rescued Revik from the dark, when no one else would.

Revik agrees to fly across the world, to face off against his old crew, the Rooks, and his ex-partner, Terian, who clearly holds a serious grudge. Faced with old demons and new struggles, Revik fights to answer the question that won’t go away: is he evil or good? And what is he willing to give up to be the man he desperately wants to be?

In the end, he thinks he’s got nothing left to lose.

It turns out he’s wrong about that, too.

SERIES NOTE: This is a Revik and Dalejem prequel in the apocalyptic Bridge and Sword series, and companion to Terian (A Bridge and Sword Novel).

He would be despised. By all of them, he would be despised.

The shadow of the Rooks hangs over Revik’s head, a constant reminder of the dark warrior he used to be.

Hidden…

“In the end, those damned Mythers got it right. The Dark Angel of Death, the Bringer of Destruction… it was me all along.”

Allie and Revik barely escape Dubai with their lives, and neither leaves that Dreng stronghold unscathed. Revik’s light and mind are compromised, as is the light of their daughter, Lily. Either or both could be turned with the flip of a switch, forced to kill or sabotage everyone they love. Both are tied inextricably to Shadow and the Dreng via their seer’s living light.

All they can do is run. The forces of Darkness, led by Shadow, take chase. Meanwhile, Shadow and his followers continue to grow stronger, cover more ground, expand their sphere of influence.

They can’t run forever. Allie knows they can’t.

Revik knows it, too. He comes up with a plan––a crazy plan, one that might wipe out everything and everyone he and Allie hold dear.

A plan that means sacrificing himself for one last shot at Shadow.

Then Dragon appears, another broken intermediary with unbelievable power.

He might just be the most dangerous seer Allie’s ever encountered––including her husband, who Dragon seems determined to hunt for reasons of his own.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The next to last chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that gets dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

The main relationship in this series is heterosexual, however it has an explicit M/M relationship, and most of the characters are bisexual.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Dragon”

“In the end, those damned Mythers got it right. The Dark Angel of Death, the Bringer of Destruction… it was me all along.”

Allie and Revik barely escape Dubai with their lives,…

And a great wail rose when the gods spoke
For the door to that other place must need be lost
And those on the other side forgotten
They lost Varlan. They lost Atwar and his people.

They lost Chandre to the darkness.

The end of the world barrels faster towards Allie and Revik, so fast they can’t afford to be cautious, or make even one more mistake. After they accidentally open (and close) the first of those mystical, otherworldly doors, they’re in a race with the Dreng to save as many humans and seers as they can.

Lost in the middle of enemy territory, they have to fight their way back to the rest of their people in the Americas. There, Allie and Revik must wage war for real, or every human and seer not under the sway of the Dreng will die. Collectively, they have to hold out against an army ten times their size, long enough for Allie to form a Bridge to a new world, just as she was destined to do.

Through her, both races might just get a second chance, if the Myther army doesn’t annihilate them first.

In this last half of the final installment of the epic science-fantasy series, Allie and Revik fight their final war of all against all.

And a great wail rose when the gods spoke
For the door to that other place must need be lost
And those on the other side forgotten
They lost Varlan. They lost Atwar and his…

For the light must die as we are reborn.
The stars must fall as the Thousand rise.
The end must come before the sun returns.
Myther armies pop up around the globe, murdering seers and humans, taking over quarantine cities.

Worse, the grisly, ritualistic murders aren’t just sadistic, but part of a millennia-long plan of the Dreng to leave Earth, destroying the planet and murdering most of its inhabitants in the process.

Allie and Revik have no time left to fix things between them, and no future left to put things off.

Cobbling together the last of their forces, they launch a final counteroffensive, teaming up with unlikely allies and using every weapon at their disposal.

Only together with their entire dysfunctional “family” can they change the course of history and forge a new hope for both races.

In this first half of the final installment of the epic science-fantasy series, Allie and Revik fight their final war of all against all.

Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. An epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy series that gets dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

For the light must die as we are reborn.
The stars must fall as the Thousand rise.
The end must come before the sun returns.
Myther armies pop up around the globe, murdering…

Nick swore he’d never bite her. He swore he’d never make her addicted to his blood.

An explosion rocks a famous building in Manhattan, blowing out whole floors, panicking the entire city. While everyone assumes terrorism, it looks like a robbery gone wrong, but no one knows what they tried to steal, or if they went there to commit murder.

Nick has no leads⏤just a dead human, and the dead human’s business partner, the city’s star architect, an eccentric vampire named Straven.

He’s also got Malek, a prescient seer who paints the future, and who desperately wants to warn Nick about this case. Unfortunately, Mal is strange as hell, cryptic to the point of infuriating, and doesn’t understand his own prescient paintings well enough to explain them to Nick.

None of that bothers Nick as much as Wynter, who he misses to the point of physical pain. After everything that happened during his last big case, Nick forced himself to break things off with her, if only to keep her safe, and both of them out of prison. Most of all, he did it to keep her safe from him, and the fact that seers become addicted to vampire venom.

When Wynter shows up at a hip vampire club while Nick’s interviewing suspects, he about loses his mind. Not only is it hard as hell to see her, but Wynter doesn’t walk in alone.

She’s there on a date, with her new vampire boyfriend.

Nick swore he’d never bite her. He swore he’d never make her addicted to his blood.

An explosion rocks a famous building in Manhattan, blowing out whole floors, panicking the…

Als er auf dem Schlachtfeld erwacht, ist Hagen blind. Ein Hieb hat ihm das Augenlicht geraubt. Hilflos irrt der gefürchtete Recke durch die Finsternis - bis er eine sanfte, flüsternde Stimme vernimmt. Ein rätselhaftes Mädchen mit Namen Nimmermehr verspricht ihm Heilung und Hilfe, wenn er ihr sein Geheimnis verrät: die Geschichte vom ersten Raub des Rheingolds und dem Zorn des Siebenschläfers.

Als er auf dem Schlachtfeld erwacht, ist Hagen blind. Ein Hieb hat ihm das Augenlicht geraubt. Hilflos irrt der gefürchtete Recke durch die Finsternis - bis er eine sanfte,…

For decades, millions of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Conan, the barbarian adventurer invented by Robert E. Howard and further chronicled by other fantasy greats, including such notables as L. Sprague de Camp, Poul Anderson, and Robert Jordan.

Now Harry Turtledove, one of today's most popular writers of fantasy and SF, contributes a novel to the Conan saga--a tale of Conan in his youth, in the year or so before he becomes the wandering adventurer we know from the tales of Howard and others.

On the verge of adulthood, he lives in a Cimmerian hamlet, caring for his ailing mother, working in his father's smithy, and casting his eye on the weaver's daughter next door.
Then war comes: an invasion by the Aquilonian Empire. Conan burns to join the fight, but he's deemed too young. Then, from the border country, comes an unbelievable report: The Aquilonians have smashed the Cimmerian defending forces, and can rule as they please. Soon their heavily garrisoned forts dot the countryside. Their settlers follow after, carving homesteads out of other men's land.

Every Cimmerian longs to drive the intruders out with fire and sword, but they must stay their hands, for the Aquilonians have promised savage reprisals. Then, intolerably, the Aquilonian commander takes a wholly dishonorable interest in the weaver's daughter -- and he's not a man to wait, or even ask permission.

It's not a recipe for a peaceable outcome.

For decades, millions of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Conan, the barbarian adventurer invented by Robert E. Howard and further chronicled by other fantasy greats,…

Arthur is King—but treachery runs rampant throughout the beleaguered Isle of the Mighty. Darkest evil descends upon Britain’s shores in many guises. Fragile alliances fray and tear, threatening all the noble liege has won with his wisdom and his blood. His most trusted counselor—the warrior, bard and kingmaker whom legend will name Merlin—is himself to be tested on a mystical journey back through his own extraordinary past. So in a black time of plague and pestilence, it is Arthur who must stand alone against a great and terrible adversary. For only this way can he truly win immortality—and the name to treasure above all others:

PENDRAGON

Arthur is King—but treachery runs rampant throughout the beleaguered Isle of the Mighty. Darkest evil descends upon Britain’s shores in many guises. Fragile alliances fray and…

The winter is bitter. Civil war threatens Kurald Galain for the warrior Urusander’s army has begun its march on the city of Kharkanas. Led by the ruthless Hunn Raal, it intends to cast aside Mother Dark’s consort, Draconus, and set Urusander himself on the throne beside the Living Goddess. Those who would stand in the way of the rebels lie scattered and weakened – leaderless since Anomander went in search of an estranged brother. In his stead, Silchas Ruin resolves to gather the Houseblades of the Highborn families to him, and to resurrect the legendary Hust Legion, but time is not on his side. Far to the west, an unlikely army musters. It seeks an enemy without form, in a place none can find. And yet Hood’s call has been heard and the long-abandoned city of Omtose Phellack is now home to a rabble of new arrivals: Dog-Runners from the south, Jheck warriors, and blue-skinned strangers from across the Western Sea have come to offer Hood their swords. From the distant mountains and isolated valleys of the North, Thel Akai arrive to pledge themselves in this seemingly impossible war. Soon, they will set forth with weapons drawn under the banners of the living in pursuit of Death itself.Such events presage chaos, and now magic bleeds into this realm. Unconstrained, mysterious and savage, it begins to run loose and wild and following its scent, seeking the places of wounding and hurt – new and ancient entities gather.In a world becoming rotten with sorcery, can honour truly exist?
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The winter is bitter. Civil war threatens Kurald Galain for the warrior Urusander’s army has begun its march on the city of Kharkanas. Led by the ruthless Hunn Raal, it intends to…

The last few months of the moontide - when the bridge connecting East and West rises above the sea - has come, and in the West Emperor Constant prepares the final phase of his plan to conquer the East.

For failed mage Alaron and his companion Ramita - widow to the mage who built the Leviathan Bridge - the unthinkable has happened. They have lost the Scytale of Corineus, the key to the Rite of Ascendancy, as well as one of Ramita's infant sons, to the hands of their deadliest enemies.

In Javon, Cera Nesti, the imprisoned queen, has been freed, and plots to take on the overwhelming might of the Rondian Empire. But standing between her and her goal is a band of deadly mercenaries playing a dangerous game of their own.

And in the East, Seth Korion's Lost Legions must navigate treacherous roads to gain safety, bearing secrets that could bring down the Emperor.

The time has come for the Rite of Ascendancy to be performed. New powers must rise to save or damn Urte, and on the mighty Leviathan Bridge itself, all will be decided.

The last few months of the moontide - when the bridge connecting East and West rises above the sea - has come, and in the West Emperor Constant prepares the final phase of his…

After the disappointments of Li Heng, Dancer and Kellanved wash up on a small insignificant island named Malaz. Immediately, of course, Kellanved plans to take it over. To do so they join forces with a small band of Napans who have fled a civil war on their own home island. The plan, however, soon goes awry as Kellanved develops a strange and dangerous fascination for a mysterious ancient structure found on the island.
The chaos in the region extends to the metaphysical planes also as a young priest of D'rek starts to question the rot at the heart of the worship of the god of decay. And back in Li Heng, Dassem, now the proclaimed Sword of Hood, finds himself being blamed for a plague which leads him to a crisis of faith - and searching for answers.
During all this, war with the neighbouring island of Nap threatens, recruited allies wonder at Kellanved’s sanity, and powerful entities take more of an interest in the little mage from Dal Hon. Dancer faces a hard choice: should he give up on his partnership? Especially when the fellow’s obsession with shadows and ancient artefacts brings the both of them alarmingly close to death and destruction.
After all, who in his right mind would actually wish to enter an Elder mystery known to everyone as the 'Deadhouse'?

After the disappointments of Li Heng, Dancer and Kellanved wash up on a small insignificant island named Malaz. Immediately, of course, Kellanved plans to take it over. To do so…

Greymane believed he'd outrun his past. With his school for swordsmanship in Falar, he was looking forward to a quiet life, although his colleague Kyle wasn't as enamoured with life outside the mercenary company, the Crimson Guard. However, it seems it is not so easy for an ex-Fist of the Malazan Empire to disappear, especially one under sentence of death from that same Empire.

Greymane believed he'd outrun his past. With his school for swordsmanship in Falar, he was looking forward to a quiet life, although his colleague Kyle wasn't as enamoured with…