The Fourth Age of Shanakan

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.

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.

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?

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.

Cal Serhan is feared dead, his body burned. The Mage Lords of Shanakan must cope without him, but it seems they can agree on nothing. White Rock is abandoned and in Sarata the Faer Karani Gerique plots his conquest of the world.

Felice Caledon tries to assemble a coalition of forces to resist, but she lacks the skill to use the one weapon that can banish the Faer Karan again. Her other hope is the Ekloi, but they seem to have abandoned Shanakan to its fate.

Gerique is fighting a shadow war, his weapons are trickery, assassination and magic. Month by month his armies grow and, as the years pass, almost without fighting, the cities of the coast fall to him one by one.

Felice believes that Cal may still be alive, but can even he turn the tide, and will he return in time to try?

Shanakan is at peace. The Faer Karan have been defeated again, this time for good. Cal Serhan, however, is waiting for the inevitable response to his victory from the empire that calls itself Unity.

In Sarata, Adelina is remaking the city’s culture and, for the moment, all seems well with the world.

But a new crime wave sweeps the coastal cities. Businesses and people are threatened and ransoms demanded. People are killed and property destroyed. Samara’s lawkeepers are making no headway with the crimes. The only clue is the symbol used to sign the demands, a twisted eye.

There is a chance that magic is involved, but even Cal seems at a loss. When lawkeepers are killed, the violence escalates and, it seems, they may be missing the whole point of the crimes.

Cal Serhan has made his and Shanakan’s peace with Unity. He even works for them now, employing his unique talents in the service of one of the empire’s ruling elite.

His wife, Adelina, also finds her niche in Unity’s Academia as a rising star in theoretical magic. And they have a son.

The Wanderer sets off on another voyage to a recently discovered new continent and discovers ancient ruins that are neither human nor Shan in origin.

All seems to be going well until Cal is sent to investigate a problem on a world called Amilla. He finds a secret, and a plot that will embarrass the greatest powers in Unity, and this is only the start of his problems.

The Wanderer’s discovery may put all of Shanakan in danger.