A weapon of power... A paladin's soul... And a girl trying to save her mother... at any cost. In the city of Tsing, life and death balance between the edge of a knife and a courtier's traitorous tongue. A paladin's soul lied bound to an emperor's flawed weapon, tormented to madness and murder. Blood has stained the Imperial palace, and the Emperor lies in the grip of a magical weapon gone mad. His life, sanity, and the empire itself can only by saved if someone can reason with the mad paladin's soul. Only one person has a chance, but Katie has been hardened by a life of cruel lessons. Having...

The most terrible Necromancer the world has ever known, has finally succumbed to the call of his own trade. Or has he? For he left behind a work of art, a beautiful mask, that lies waiting for the touch of a living hand. The Reaper of Souls has been cheated, for Azrael has hidden his soul where it cannot be found, where his one hope of immortality lies, where the touch of a living hand can bring him new life. The soul of Azrael resides within an enchanted mask, imbued with the power to contain the necromancer's soul forever and allow him to corrupt any who are seduced into donning the...

The pursuit of the cornerstones has begun. The companions have stolen two of the four precious cornerstones, artifacts of unbelievable power, from the Nekdukarr Iveron Darkmist. Furious at this interruption of his plans to use the cornerstones to wage war, the Nekdukarr will stop at nothing to get them back. So while the companions pursue the last two stones, Darkmist and his assassins pursue them. But Iveron is not the only ambitious member of Clan Darkmist. Lysethra and Calmarel, matriarchs of the clan and Iveron's sisters, have discovered that he will soon possess a source of incalculable...

Zellohar Keep is lost... Once the ancestral home of a glorious dwarven kingdom-a masterpiece of architecture, secure, secretive, and impregnable-Zellohar is now prison to a dark evil. The dwarves used the might of the cornerstones, conduits to the power of the elemental spheres, to forever seal the keep. But the minions of the Dark Gods are not so easily imprisoned. The squires of the Nekdukarr Lord Iveron Darkmist, a paladin of the death god, Mortas, have recovered the cornerstones. The enchantment has been broken. The doors that sealed Zellohar have been opened. The chaos of the Nine Hells...