<p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Could you take a child's life to save a world?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">The Pale Kings are rising.</strong><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)"> Emaneska's Long Winter remains as bitter as a blade between the ribs. War is fast approaching. Gods and demons are hovering on the horizon. Long-lost revelations arrive to haunt the lives of three men.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">While Farden the Written mage busies himself digging up his past in the strange deserts of Paraia, the storm-clouds begin to gather for Durnus, Elessi, Cheska, and Modren.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Together with Farfallen and his dragon-riders, they must fight to survive against the Long Winter, the vicious machinations of the new Arkmage, and the arrival of something much deadlier than both combined.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">War, deception, and murder are quickly becoming the only paths to salvation.</strong></p>
