Top ranking #1 in Sword and Sorcery "The king is dead! Long live no one, nobody ... Nothing ..." Game of Thrones meets Caraval in this family-friendly epic telling of light, darkness and all the colours in between. "In the year 390, the Albidoni crowned their first king. Seven hundred years later, they deposed their last and now that man is dead. Let the people rejoice. But in the land of dreamers where men would live free, there lingers an ancient tyranny waiting to be awakened. When civil war and plague threaten to undo the peace the Albidoni have so long strived for and when the sunset bleeds only red onto the horizon, that evil will return embraced with open arms. - For what the dreamers have forgotten or what perhaps they never knew is that shadows have a price, wishes require a life and its tales told 'round the fireside that are the cruelest masters of all." Cover credit: H.S.J. Williams

They thought they had it all figured out. They thought they could control the prophecies. They thought they could control me. But they couldn't control them, they couldn't stop the Shadow Beasts and they couldn't keep him alive. Meet Aria, crown princess of the Waterlands, and bride of the future Ærlandian king. Aria lives in a world where ones soul is entwined with anothers, they are bound together by love and magic. These pairings are called Destineds. You lose your Destined, your soul is fractured. Aria must not have a fractured soul, lest the greatest evil in her world consume her, and use her unique abilities, prophesied of before she was born, to enslave the world. After hearing of these abilities, the leaders of all the world gather to decide her fate. They planned for everything except a murder. A murder that may throw their whole world into chaos. Now Aria, whom they believed would be their destruction, could indeed be their only chance at salvation.