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...

Rival werewolf packs leap into a brutal battle of claw, tooth and silver. One seeks only to fill their bellies with human flesh, the other struggles to defend their loved ones living in the nearby settlement.

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...

For Baden, surviving his exile in the Ravager-plauged deserts means always traveling alone. But to ease the torturous memories of his past and the nightmare's they bring, he must break that one rule.In a desperate attempt to find peace of mind, he rushes to save captured travelers bound for a life of slavery. But will the calm he finds be the sweet sigh of success, or the sudden silence of a shallow grave?

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...

What if you never knew your father?What if your mother's stories about him always contradicted themselves?Isabelle, ten years old and fiercely determined, sets out to track down her father's true identity. Her mother's tall tales have one fact in common, one clue. Isabelle's father was a nobleman.Isabelle's only hope lies in the records room at the great cathedral, where the Church of the Divine Mother tracks the births and deaths of the noble born....

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...

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,...

The Destroyer walks freely upon the earth, spreading her dark will across the land. Her powers infect man and beast alike as she turns her attention to new victims and horrific perversions. Kaltor's newly awoken link to his brother causes more problems than it solves, bringing five years of restrained doubt and fear crashing down on his mind. Suspicion between his parents tests the bonds of his family's loyalty. Mysterious deaths and demonic dreams...

Among the Children of the Sky, even the smallest child can light a candle at will. Water, lighting and fire rise to the call of every Tri-Being's emotions.Kaltor Stratagar, and Outlander refugee, is no Tri-Being. Even a simple candle mocks his lack of elemental power, not to mention the growing abilities of his peers.As a child, leaving Keevan alive was an act of mercy the Council couldn't refuse. Though at constant war with the Outlanders, they didn't...