What do you do when everything you know is taken away? Kia Forrester has always taken magic for granted. The daughter of an important member on the Council of Mages, she's always had everything she wanted. But one day, she wakes up to find her magic gone. Exiled by the Council and separated from her friends and family, Kia is close to giving up when she runs into a group of fellow exiled, all desperate for revenge. From them, she learns that her magic is not broken but sealed. Together they set out to regain it, but it won't be easy. Along the way, she will face friends and enemies from her past life, and learn some truths about the Council that she may not want to know. She'll have to sacrifice everything if she is to regain the one thing that she wants more than anything: her old life back. Does she have what it takes? And when it comes to it, will it all be worth it?

"You will know darkness. You will see it... feel it... You will breathe it in; the evil that is to come. It is my duty to show you, and it is your fate to learn from it." Rurik Kaster is a veteran soldier and a blood-tested, war-hardened champion for his empire. He is a brother and a friend and, once again, going to war for his Emperor, but not any kind he has endured before. His strength and spirit will be tested. His allies will become suspect. His reality will turn upside down. Fate of an Empire is the first installment in the Talurian Empire Trilogy. The launching series, centering on the warring empire of Talur, a dominant people group on a secluded continent of Ethindriil, driven into a bloodlust war between powers far beyond their comprehension. Follow a courageous soldier, tyrannical general, orphaned druid, warrior prince, ancient mage, and many more characters as they try to make sense of their escalating conflict.