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The Certain Path: The Story of Cassian
The goblins that burned Ronan's village were only the beginning. Something is mustering them — and this time, Ronan isn't waiting behind the wall.
Two seasons after the raid, horns are calling to each other across the northern woods — gathering, answering, patient in a way no raid has ever been. Ronan shoulders the great blade and follows the trail. What he finds at the end of it doesn't stay dead when he kills it.
Far to the south, a seventeen-year-old wizard has never once been wrong. In a forgotten star chart no one else bothered to read, Cassian sees it the sky is coming round to the shape it held the last time the world broke. The masters laugh him out of the college — a clever boy seeing dragons in the clouds. So he sets out to prove it, with a borrowed scroll and the one friend who has spent his whole life keeping him alive. The proof leads through a fallen kingdom, down into a dark that drinks magic, and north to a hall carved into the bones of a mountain, where kings dead a thousand years sealed something away and left a warning no one alive can fully read.
Cassian can read enough of it. That's the problem.
He was right about everything. And being right is how the age of ash begins.
The Certain Path is the second book of The Age of Ash — the warrior and the wizard, closing from two sides on the same waking dark. A six-book epic fantasy saga for readers of David Gemmell and John Gwynne. The company that will stand against the fire is drawing together, one road at a time — no profanity, no explicit content.
Two seasons after the raid, horns are calling to each other across the northern woods — gathering, answering, patient in a way no raid has ever been. Ronan shoulders the great blade and follows the trail. What he finds at the end of it doesn't stay dead when he kills it.
Far to the south, a seventeen-year-old wizard has never once been wrong. In a forgotten star chart no one else bothered to read, Cassian sees it the sky is coming round to the shape it held the last time the world broke. The masters laugh him out of the college — a clever boy seeing dragons in the clouds. So he sets out to prove it, with a borrowed scroll and the one friend who has spent his whole life keeping him alive. The proof leads through a fallen kingdom, down into a dark that drinks magic, and north to a hall carved into the bones of a mountain, where kings dead a thousand years sealed something away and left a warning no one alive can fully read.
Cassian can read enough of it. That's the problem.
He was right about everything. And being right is how the age of ash begins.
The Certain Path is the second book of The Age of Ash — the warrior and the wizard, closing from two sides on the same waking dark. A six-book epic fantasy saga for readers of David Gemmell and John Gwynne. The company that will stand against the fire is drawing together, one road at a time — no profanity, no explicit content.
148 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 28, 2026
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