The sacred temples have fallen. A new sacred swordmaster must rise. The sacred temples have been destroyed and neither the Leier or the Koral are safe in their traditional lands any longer. When the Sul’toral continue their attack on the Leier homeland using enchantments and deadly creatures, she must find a way to lead her people to safety. She suspects Timo’s involvement but the truth is much worse. What she learns upends all she’s known about sorcery and those who wield it. When neither her mastery of the sacred patterns or her newly gifted Porapeth magic is enough, Imogen must find a way to be more than a sacred swordmaster, or all her people will be destroyed.

They called him the Volatar. He came from nothing. Found his power. Became a legend, then lost it all. Now he has all the power in the world but can't touch it. With war growing, an old enemy on his heels, his best friend by his side, only the north holds the secret to reconnecting with his lost power. But war has a way of pushing old heroes aside.  Hevith Alaster knew nothing of the Hith when their dark magic took his family away. Life on the wagon train had been simple. Keep moving north, stay ahead of the war. But war found him all the same. Hurt, humbled, and left to rot in a northern prison, Hevith must carve out a new life for himself in the wake of tragedy--but only if he can find a way to break free before the Hith break him. Either he must rise to the challenge or he will be yet another casualty on the Hith's path to total domination. **

Jayna has revealed the depths of darkness within the Society. Now she has to cleanse it completely. Jayna has stopped a deadly dark magic attack on Nelar. While searching for her long missing brother, she learns of a dangerous new dark magic. Stopping the dark magic means taking a path she’d never thought she would, but the rot within the society means she must try to be more than the Toral Ceran trained her to be, but means she must embrace a power that might be darker magic than she can withstand.

The dragon misfits are the key to saving the dragons of Lorach but they must act before a stranger destroys them.   Jason has secured a tentative peace for Dragon Haven. With his control over illusion, and the Lorach threat thwarted for now, his time is spent preparing for the next attack, knowing the Dragon Souls will not be easily stopped.   An old ally to Dragon Haven returns, but Jason questions his motives—along with his techniques. Now Jason must choose whether to stop the Dragon Souls or save them.   Stopping Lorach for good might mean destroying the captured dragons. It’s a choice Jason fears to make, but doing otherwise means betraying those who have come to rely upon him.