Kings or Pawns (Steps of Power: The Kings Book I)
JessicaSherwood
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  • Reads 396
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  • Parts 11
  • Time 3h 52m
JessicaSherwood
Ongoing, First published Aug 18, 2015
Mature
actionadventuredemondemonsdragonselvesepicepicfantasyfantasyhighfantasyintriguemagicpoliticalsorceryswordwar
8,994 P.E.-The elven city of Elvorium has become corrupted to the core by politics. With his father dead and The Royal Schism at his back, Prince Hairem becomes the king of the elven world on Sevrigel. Young and daring, Hairem is determined to undo the council's power, but quickly finds his loyal council members brutally murdered by an assassin loosed within the city.

As corruption and death threaten to tear the city apart from within, the warlord Saebellus threatens the city from without, laying siege to Sevrigel's eastern capital. With the elven world crumbling around him, Hairem finds himself in a dangerous political balance between peace and all out war.
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