A KINGDOM WILL BURN…
Garn once boasted five great kingdoms – until Ithrace was betrayed. Its royal family, the Firemanes, was not saved even by it’s affinity with fire: every one of them was executed by the King of Sandura. Now four kingdoms remain on the brink of war. But there are whispers that a newborn Ithrace heir may have been smuggled away…Terrified, the four kings place a bounty on the child’s head, lest the boy grow up with revenge in his heart.
Declan is a gifted apprenticed to a master blacksmith in a peaceful village learning an ancient craft – until slavers descend to capture men to press as soldiers for Sandura, forcing him to run for his life, carrying with him his priceless knowledge of the forging of jewel-steel.
On the secret island domain of the Quelli Nacosti assassins, three young friends are being schooled in the arts of espionage and killing: Donte, son of senior master: Hava, a fierce girl and gifted fighter: and Hatu, a strange, conflicted boy in whom fury and calm war constantly, whose hair is a bright and fiery shade of red…
A epic fantasy novel from internationally bestselling author Raymond E. Feist.