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The Shattering of Chains
For fans of A Game of Thrones, Mistborn, Codex Alera, and The Wheel of Time.
For decades, power in the world was held by those who chained others or held sway over living, fickle magic.
Commanded by the king, Captain Yeltson Greggor intends to break their hold. He wasn’t always a covert and elite killer, but the machinations of those in power forced his hand. Now his hands are covered in blood. Tasked to bring down the Slaver Coalition, he soon discovers that they are far more influential and elusive than believed.
In the midst of assassinations, conspiracies, betrayals, and the threat of war, he has to trust those he hates—essencers, those who manipulate and use magic.
For Yeltson, this mission becomes personal as those he cares about are quickly involved. Princess Amelia, who he is courting, is an outspoken abolitionist and, he discovers, an essencer who is the niece of the leader of the coalition. With bounties and assassins out for blood, nobility clamoring for their own gain, and hundreds if not thousands of lives at stake, distrust and prejudice must be cast aside. Dark powers have arisen, seemingly out of myth and legend, whose own power may be stronger than any essencer. Those in power relish the chains they hold.
For decades, power in the world was held by those who chained others or held sway over living, fickle magic.
Commanded by the king, Captain Yeltson Greggor intends to break their hold. He wasn’t always a covert and elite killer, but the machinations of those in power forced his hand. Now his hands are covered in blood. Tasked to bring down the Slaver Coalition, he soon discovers that they are far more influential and elusive than believed.
In the midst of assassinations, conspiracies, betrayals, and the threat of war, he has to trust those he hates—essencers, those who manipulate and use magic.
For Yeltson, this mission becomes personal as those he cares about are quickly involved. Princess Amelia, who he is courting, is an outspoken abolitionist and, he discovers, an essencer who is the niece of the leader of the coalition. With bounties and assassins out for blood, nobility clamoring for their own gain, and hundreds if not thousands of lives at stake, distrust and prejudice must be cast aside. Dark powers have arisen, seemingly out of myth and legend, whose own power may be stronger than any essencer. Those in power relish the chains they hold.
- GenresFantasy
557 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 9, 2016
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