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The Exile by Ryan Cahill
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDo not hesitate. Do not contemplate mercy. The Lorian empire took everything from Dayne.His family. His home. His people.He will carve a bloody path through Epheria. He will have his vengeance, by blade and by blood.This is his story.The story of The Exile.*Note: this is a companion novella to The Bound and The Broken series, not a standalone novella... -
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God Restrainer by Christopher Mitchell
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTogether again.For the first time in years, the entire Holdfast family is gathered in the same place. For Daphne, however, this is more than just the family reunion she has been longing for. At stake is the future of the entire Empire, and the choices made by the Holdfasts will determine if the Star Continent will live in peace, or descend into civil war... -
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The Seventh Realm, Part 1 by Michael Chatfield
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWar has come to the Willful Institute. It has come to the first realm.For years Alva has trained, developed weapons and tactics never seen in the ten realms. Now Alva moves in the background, supporting the Adventurer’s Guild. No band of fighters, no sect looking to gain individual honors.The armies of Alva were forged together in Alva dungeon. Tempered in body, in mind, in mana... -
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The Tenth Realm by Michael Chatfield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDevourer, Ravager. Titles of a forgotten enemy, a distant memory.Now freshly reborn in stark reminders of burning flame and blood.The tenth realm has been lost, and Akran’s hordes of devourers and ravagers have been loosed upon the lower realms. Dealing the reclusive and powerful Imperium has taken a serious blow... -
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![Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield]()
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsAt Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces...Categorized as:
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The Third Realm by Michael Chatfield
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith the third realm new challenges arise. Erik searches for Old Hei while Rugrat deals with his broken mana system. For both, their path takes them towards the alchemist association's trial. They didn't mean to get into trouble, they swear, but in the ten realms trouble is not far behind the duo. They'll have to fight across the third realm to complete the alchemist association's trial...Categorized as:
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![Land of Magic by Kirill Klevanski]()
Land of Magic by Kirill Klevanski
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe left behind the Northern Kingdoms, tired of their wars and schemes. The golden waves of the Sea of Sand didn’t drown him in fire, but the Evening Stars ultimately didn’t bless him with their light. Despite his many adventures, despite the fact he's already endured enough hardship to last him several lifetimes, his soul was restless... -
![Fall of Kings by David Gemmell, Stella Gemmell]()
Fall of Kings by David Gemmell, Stella Gemmell
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsDarkness falls on the Great Green and the Ancient World is fiercely divided.On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King Agamemnon mass.Among them is Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ally to the Mykene... -
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Killer of Men by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsArimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line - the wall of bronze - for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a hero, but a slave... -
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Shield of Thunder by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThe war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder.Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come...Categorized as:
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![The Two Week Curse by Michael Chatfield]()
The Two Week Curse by Michael Chatfield
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThrust into an unknown, unwanted situation, most would feel panic, fear anger and fall into chaos. Erik and Rugrat are not immune to those feelings, but they have stepped into chaos so many times, it is simply a different challenge. Two weeks ago, Erik lost his legs and his arm. Today he got a message. "You have been randomly selected to join the Ten Realms...Categorized as:
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![The Second Storm by Tao Wong]()
The Second Storm by Tao Wong
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen War Wages, Even Innocents PerishTwo years have passed and the war between the kingdoms of Shen and Wei rages on. The dark sect moves in the shadows, striking against the noble Verdant Green Waters Sect, damaging, killing and kidnapping their members.Among the victims - Fairy Yang, Wu Ying's martial sister...Categorized as:
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![The Words of Kings and Prophets by Shauna Lawless]()
The Words of Kings and Prophets by Shauna Lawless
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe sequel to the critically acclaimed The Children of Gods and Fighting Men, The Words of Kings and Prophets is the powerful new historical fantasy novel by Shauna Lawless.Ireland, 1000 AD. Gormflaith is unhappily married to Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, and although a queen she struggles with her limited position... -
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Road of a Warrior by R.K. Lander
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBest Indie Book Award 2018. Best-selling author R.K. Lander's second book in the Silvan Series.A light in the forest, a king returned, a past to claim.Fel'annár is an immortal half-blood warrior from the Deep Forest, an orphan whose questions were never answered... -
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![Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell]()
Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsHe is a man of many names. Some call him the Golden One; others, the Lord of the Silver Bow. To the Dardanians, he is Prince Aeneas. But to his friends, he is Helikaon. Strong, fast, quick of mind, he is a bold warrior, hated by his enemies, feared even by his Trojan allies. For there is a darkness at the heart of the Golden One, a savagery that, once awakened, can be appeased only with blood...Categorized as:
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![Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Correia]()
Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf it's war you want...find here the best of military epic fantasy as the best-selling Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series continues.The Great Extermination has begun.In the Capitol, Grand Inquisitor Omand Vokkan hatches a plot to kill every member of the untouchable caste in all of Lok, down to the last man, woman, and child... -
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Lifemarked by David Estes
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Four Kingdoms and the fatemarked face the most powerful army the world has ever seen...In Phanes, Roan Loren, the Peacemaker, has high hopes for a united response to the threat from the Horde, but swiftly realizes the only true ally he has is his arch nemesis, Bane... -
![The Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden]()
The Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEvoking two of the most famous battles of the Ancient World—the Battle of Marathon and the Last Stand at Thermopylae—The Gates of Athens is a bravura piece of storytelling by a well acclaimed master of the historical adventure novel.In the new epic historical novel by New York Times bestselling author Conn Iggulden, in ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon . . -
![War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue, Homer]()
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue, Homer
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn his brilliant rendering of eight books of Homer's Iliad, Logue here retells some of the most evocative episodes of the war classic, including the death of Patroclus and Achilles's fateful return to battle, that sealed the doom of Troy... -
![Demon's Throne by K.D. Robertson]()
Demon's Throne by K.D. Robertson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRys awakes to the smell of blood and nearly two thousand years of dust. Maybe he overslept a little too long. Once, he was a great champion and general in the demonic empire that ruled the world. Now, he's been erased from history.He'll need to remind the world of the price of forgetfulness.Now is the time to build his own empire, as the ancient powers of his time are long gone... -
![The First Peak of the Force by Yuri Ajin]()
The First Peak of the Force by Yuri Ajin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThose who follow the noble art of cultivation know that there's no place for evil in their craft and that all that matters is reaching the Heavens. But to do that, one must unlock their Force.The Fallen Star Sect's expedition to the mysterious cave ended in tragedy: hundreds of their most talented students lost their lives in the dark tunnels... -
![A Bond Undone by Jin Yong]()
A Bond Undone by Jin Yong
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Bond Undone is the second book in Jin Yong's epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes series, published in the US for the first time!In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father’s death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women. Neither of them is his sweetheart Lotus Huang...Categorized as:
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![House of Assassins by Larry Correia]()
House of Assassins by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLARRY CORREIA'S BEST-SELLING EPIC FANTASY SERIES, SAGA OF THE FORGOTTEN WARRIOR, CONTINUES.Ashok Vidal was once a member of the highest caste in all of Lok. As a Protector, he devoted his life to upholding the Law, rooting out those who still practiced the old ways and delivering swift justice with his ancestor blade Angruvadal... -
![Lion of Macedon by David Gemmell]()
Lion of Macedon by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsOver and again, the aged seeress Tamis scried all the possible tomorrows. In every one, dark forces threatened Greece; terrible evil was poised to reenter the world. The future held only one hope: a half-caste Spartan boy, Parmenion. So Tamis made it her mission to see that Parmenion would before the deadliest warrior in the world -- no matter what the cost... -
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![Opposition by Dean Henegar]()
Opposition by Dean Henegar
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe drums of war sound in the Limitless Lands as Commander Raytak continues his quest to unite Hayden’s Knoll under the banner of the Imperium. Narbos the Grimm prepares his forces to invade, seeking new power from an ancient evil as he tries to wrest control of the zone from Raytak and his friends... -
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The Immortal Words by Jeff Wheeler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTo defeat an immortal evil, a young warrior must enter the land of the dead in the spellbinding conclusion to Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler’s epic Grave Kingdom trilogy.As kingdoms fall, brave young warrior Bingmei fights to fulfill a prophecy and save what’s left of the world from the coming darkness...Categorized as:
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![The Eagle by Jack Whyte]()
The Eagle by Jack Whyte
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBeginning with 'The Skystone', Jack Whyte embarked on an ambitious re-telling of the Arthurian cycle. With 'The Eagle' we come at last to the heart of the tale, the creation of fabled Camelot and the love story that enshrined its glory - and, some say, caused its downfall... -
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Lancelot by Giles Kristian
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSet in a 5th century post-Roman Britain besieged by invading war bands of Saxons and Franks, Irish and Picts, Giles Kristian's epic new novel tells - through the warrior's own words - the story of Lancelot, the most celebrated of all King Arthur's knights. And it's a story that’s ready to be re-imagined for our times... -
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Stiger's Tigers by Marc Alan Edelheit
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe empire has endured many centuries but is now threatened by multiple wars and a major rebellion in the South. A nobleman from an infamous family, imperial legionary officer, fighter and a right proper bastard of a man… Captain Ben Stiger finds himself reassigned from a crack legion to the rebellion simmering in the South...Categorized as:
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![Sevenfold Sword: Warlord by Jonathan Moeller]()
Sevenfold Sword: Warlord by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords has unleashed catastrophic war. Ridmark Arban is the Shield Knight, the only Swordbearer in the realm of Owyllain. He is allied with the noble King Hektor Pendragon, who fights to reunify the Seven Swords and to end the destructive war they have unleashed... -
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Sevenfold Sword: Necromancer by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords has put terrible power in the hands of madmen. The Necromancer of Trojas wields the Sword of Death, and with it he has summoned a vast host of the undead. Unless Ridmark Arban can stop him, the undead horde will conquer all the realm of Owyllain. But the city of Trojas holds other secrets. And one of those secrets might kill Ridmark and destroy Owyllain.. -
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Sevenfold Sword: Shadow by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords has freed the shadows to prey upon mankind. Ridmark has learned that the sorceress Cathala holds the secret of the Seven Swords, and quests to free her from the grasp of an imprisoning spell. But the Maledicti priests know of Ridmark's quest, and plot to stop him with a deadly new weapon... -
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Sevenfold Sword: Unity by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords will destroy kingdoms. Ridmark Arban is the Shield Knight, questing to stop the rise of the evil New God. But Ridmark and his companions are caught in the war between the final remnant of the dying gray elves and the brutal muridach horde. Unless Ridmark can save the gray elves, he and his friends will die, and the New God will rise in power to enslave the world.. -
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Sevenfold Sword: Sorceress by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords will unmask treachery. Ridmark Arban is the Shield Knight, questing to stop the rise of the evil New God. The sorceress Cathala, imprisoned within magical stone, holds the lore of the creator of the Seven Swords. But dark powers are stirring in the Serpent Marshes, and Cathala has secrets of her own. Secrets that might kill Ridmark and his friends.. -
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Sevenfold Sword: Serpent by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords threatens to summon the malevolent New God...but other dark powers might seize the New God's throne. Ridmark Arban is the Shield Knight, questing to rescue his friends from the cruel dvargir slavers of Najaris... -
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Sevenfold Sword: Guardian by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords nears its end, and dark powers rise to seize the world. Ridmark Arban has learned the terrible secret at the heart of the Seven Swords. Now he need only escape Urd Maelwyn, the grim city ruled by the dark elven tyrant known as the Confessor. But few who enter Urd Maelwyn ever leave alive... -
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Sevenfold Sword: Tower by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords has brought the world to the edge of destruction. To defeat the evil of the Seven Swords, Ridmark must learn the secrets of their making. But the creator of the Swords is imprisoned within the dungeons of Urd Maelwyn, once the stronghold of the dark elven tyrant called the Sovereign. And those who enter the dungeons of Urd Maelwyn never return.. -
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Dragontiarna: Knights by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRidmark Arban has defeated both the mighty Frostborn and the evil of the Seven Swords, and now he only wishes to live quietly with his family. But Ridmark's oldest enemy, the Warden of Urd Morlemoch, has not forgotten him. And the Warden knows a dangerous secret. For the dragons are returning.. -
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Red-Robed Priestess by Elizabeth Cunningham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a long, eventful life that has brought her through slavery to the Resurrection garden, through the controversies of the early Church to a hermit cave in southern Gaul, Maeve, the Celtic Magdalen, comes full circle. With her daughter Sarah, Maeve returns to the British Isles to seek her first-born daughter taken from her by the druids more than forty years ago... -
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The Trials of Daphne Holdfast by Christopher Mitchell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDaphne Holdfast is a young captain assigned to defend an isolated fort far behind enemy lines.Promoted due to her family’s connections and mistrusted by the garrison’s officers, Daphne must find the strength to unite her troops and repel the advancing enemy hordes.She has one advantage – she is an elite vision mage, endowed with supreme fighting skills... -
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Fragile Empire by Christopher Mitchell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Empire has lived in peace for 16 years, but trouble is brewing behind the Grey Mountains, where the renegade nation of Rahain prepares; arming itself for a long-awaited war of vengeance.Karalyn, the 18 year old daughter of two war heroes, is trying to find a place for herself in the world. Her own powers were deemed so dangerous she spent much of her childhood in exile... -
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Copper Chain by James Maxwell
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen a desperate king threatens Dion and everything he loves, only dangerous magic can keep him safe.Dion, now king of Xanthos, is finally in command of the naval fleet he’s always dreamed of. But his hopes for peace are jeopardized when King Palemon, in dire need of ships to rescue his starving people from the frozen wastelands of the north, invades the Salesian city of Malakai... -
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Gallows Born by A.C. Salter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'We live as men - but fight as gods.'He was born on the gallows, the corpse of his mother swinging from the rope above. The villagers branded him as the son of Death, the Bane of the North, and left him out for the Fug to claim, a deadly fog ruled by the Draugr - Viking warriors that had long ago fallen in battle... -
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Red Branch by Morgan Llywelyn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a land ruled by war and love and strange enchantments, Cuchulain -- torn between gentleness and violence, haunted by the croakings of a sinister raven -- fights for his honor and his homeland and discovers too late the trap that the gods have set for him in the fatal beauty of Deirdre and the brutal jealousy of King Conor...Categorized as:
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Silver Road by James Maxwell
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsChloe’s quest to escape the Oracle’s prophecy leads her to a magus with a secret: the eldren are not the only race to use magic in warfare. An ancient power is rediscovered, and a forgotten people will return.Meanwhile, cursed by his birth, Dion tries to forge a new life at sea, away from both the eldren and his former life in Xanthos, but the one thing he can’t leave behind is his heritage... -
![The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden]()
The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsRarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history...Categorized as:
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Dark Prince by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe chaos spirit had chosen the child Alexander to be its human host. But Parmenion, most powerful warrior of ancient Greece, had won a small victory over the darkness that sought to rule through Alexander. The boy's soul had not been destroyed by evil, but instead had merged with it -- and now Parmenion aided Alexander in the battle between light and dark that constantly raged within him... -
![All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten by Christopher Logue]()
All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten by Christopher Logue
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSetting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face— Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: "Kill! Kill for me! Better to die than live without killing!" Who says prayer does no good? Christopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad, has been called "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (The New York Review of Books)... -
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Sevenfold Sword: Maze by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords holds a dark secret at its heart.To find a way to destroy the Swords, Ridmark has entered the Durance of Urd Maelwyn, a twisted dungeon built by a dark elven tyrant. There he must find the mad smith who forged the Swords.But the ruler of the Durance does not let prisoners escape her iron grasp.. -
![A Queen's Command by J.D.L. Rosell]()
A Queen's Command by J.D.L. Rosell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe legend of Tal Harrenfel lives on, and a new song spreads across the Westreach. But as a devil inhabits Garin and old enemies and old flames haunt Tal, their victory promises to be short-lived...Tal, Garin, and their companions survived the traps of one Extinguished at great cost, but their troubles have only begun...
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