"An original fantasy filled with magic and culture, the story of a character torn between two names, two loyalties, and two definitions of good and evil."âKevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Spine of the Dragon Wen Alder was born into two worlds. On his father's side, a legacy of proud loyalty and service to the god-like Sienese Emperor spanning generations. And it is expected that Alder, too, will follow this tradition by passing the Imperial exams, learning the accepted ways of magic and, if he serves with honor, enhancing his family's prominence by rising to take a...

J.T. Greathouse delivers an epic conclusion to his British Fantasy Award-nominated Pact and Pattern fantasy series in which a magical warrior must undo his greatest feat-which became his greatest failure... In an ill-fated attempt to prevent the tyrannical Emperor from rekindling war with the gods, young rebel Foolish Cur made the dreadful mistake of wielding incredibly powerful but forbidden magic. In doing so, he himself fell into a trap of the gods' own making, inadvertently setting them free. Now, after uncountable years, the gods are free to wreak their own chaos upon the world,...

J.T. Greathouse continues his Pact and Pattern fantasy series, hailed by New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan as “a captivating epic of conflicted loyalties and dangerous ambition.” The boy once known as Wen Alder has become the rebel witch Foolish Cur. Schooled in both the powers that bound him to serve the emperor as well as the furious, wild magic of his mother’s ancestors, he was torn between two worlds, until he realized the brutal nature of the emperor and his rule. Joining the rebellion, he soon experienced the painful sacrifices that come with defiance. Now the...

The world beyond the walls is a fractured place. Its history is inked in blood, its people divided, its lands littered with dangerous magical remnants left by the First Folk - ancient beings who are now but the whisper of a memory. It is those whispers that Fola, a sorceress from the isolated City of the Wise, is hunting down. Her quest will take her into a cursed kingdom plagued by wraiths, entangle her in the mystery surrounding the death of a king, and push her towards a girl with strange powers, guarded by someone stranger still - a grey man armed with a ghostwood blade. The way ahead...