The Books

The Annals of Alytha

Alytha fled her homeland to escape civil war. Five hundred seasons later, violence embraces the nations she founded when an enemy to all mortals seeks vengeance against their god Aetharovyr. Morgallen wrests power from the capital, murders the royal family, and asserts himself as king. Alytha’s laws are overturned. The great houses are burned. Old theologies are outlawed. The people suffer but learn to live with their pain. Seasons pass until a rumor spreads that the heiress escaped Morgallen’s wrath and was reared in secret. At eighteen summers, Vale is forced to evade assassins, learn to wield sorcery, convince a nation to follow her, and plan a campaign to overthrow a malicious ruler so ripe with hubris that he believes he can kill a god.

Book One: To Secure a Scion

Book Two: To Redeem with Ruin

Chronicles of Candlelight

Darith Forhild, the heir to the greatest military power known throughout the empire, finds himself a refugee when creatures believed to be hunted into extinction raze his home city and curse the ground upon which it stood. He is forced to endure pain and sorrow to survive. With enemies ravaging his homeland, he seeks shelter amongst society’s outcasts where he encounters an unlikely source of wisdom. He learns to harness the power of the sword he was gifted and prepares his disparate followers to cleanse the land of the wild creatures that stained his home with blood.

Book One: An Occasion to Mourn

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