Shanakan is a land in decline, ruled by the brutal, inhuman Faer Karan. It is rife with banditry, the population is falling the cities are shrinking and the spectre of starvation looms.
A young man walks out of the untamed western lands into the heart of Shanakan. He is Cal Serhan, clever, talented, but barely more than a boy. His fate is inextricably tied to that of the Faer Karan. He is sent to be their enemy, but Cal will yield neither to the hatred that sent him, nor to the terror that awaits him.
To the people of the land he will become the bringer of law and justice. To the Shan he will be the herald of the fourth age, and to the Faer Karan he will be a tool that will serve their dark purpose, or die.
Can Cal resist the tides of history, fate and political intrigue that surround him to carve his own path, or will he lose himself in the roles that others desire him to play?
Can he even survive long enough to make the choice?
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Samara is the greatest city in the world, recently freed from tyrannical rule it now has a city council and laws, and one man to keep them. Sam is trying to build a force of law keepers, but he stumbles across a terrible crime, and the more he learns the more it seems that magic is involved, the dead are piled high, and it’s been going on for decades.
He knows he’s out of his depth, but the law is the law, and Sam is going to enforce it, even if it kills him.
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Felice Caledon likes her quiet life.
She lives with her parents, keeps her father’s books, and wants little more. But her father sends her on a trading trip with her brother, and in the small port town of Yasu a terrible crime leaves her scarred and propels her on a quest for justice across half the world.
On her journey Felice will make friends and enemies, she will learn secrets that threaten her very existence and in a small northern town she will finally meet the man who has scarred her, and face a destiny quite different from the one she had imagined.
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A foreign sea captain is murdered at a Samaran inn. Two of his crew are stabbed to death in a back street. But the captain’s ship is missing and there’s a strange note hidden in the dead man’s boot.
Sam Hekman, Samara’s dour chief lawkeeper, thinks there’s more to the case than meets the eye, so he dispatches his agents to backtrack the captain’s trail, to find his ship and to discover just exactly what his last voyage was all about.
With a royal wedding in the offing he must find out if there is a threat to the Princess Calaine, or is it all just the shadow of a bigger plot?
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Helena Pelorus has set her heart on exploring her world. Blind from birth, she was gifted her sight by the Faer Karani Borbonil. Since then, she has turned her dark world of distances and angles into a rediscovery of the lost art of geometria.
Meanwhile, Cal Serhan’s world has darkened. The mages he has trained now chafe at his rules and resent his interference. Some even plot against him. The Faer Karan that he banished from Shanakan continue to return, seeking vengeance, and a new power now threatens him.
As Helena sails away on her voyage of discovery, the plots in Shanakan multiply and weave together. Poison, magic deception and betrayal will all play their part.
One thing is certain. Someone is going to die.
Cal Serhan is dead. Or he should be. His friends mourn his passing, and his shattered body has been burned at White Rock.
But Cal finds himself in another body, in another world, a world without magic. It has people, though, billions of them, and the city he finds himself in is called London. There are dangers here. He discovers that this new world is a prison. The Fae are the prisoners and will sell him out for the slightest advantage. The Ekloi are the warders, and they want him dead.
To survive he must use his unique talents to learn the secrets of the Ekloi and win allies among humans and Fae.
To find his way home Cal must plot and scheme against the might of an empire that controls thousands of worlds. If he fails, he will die. Again.