Oath of the Thief

by Zackery Arbela

  But nothing is that simple in Galadorn, where gangs battle one another for control of the back alleys while aristocrats plot furious intrigues. Where a man's life is reckoned by the coin in his purse and the blade in his hand. Fenn finds himself on the run with a price on his head, caught between a growing number of angry men who want him dead...and an enigmatic courtesan who wants him for her own mysterious reasons.

  Bodies pile up in Galadorn's streets. Hunted and betrayed, Fenn must use all his wits and cunning to discover the secret of the Eyes of the Winter Horse, foil a plot to bring down the Prince of the city...and save his own skin along the way.

  RED SHADOWS

  Fenn Aquila embarks on his next adventure!

  A hidden menace stalks the streets of Galadorn, striking in the night and leaving the bodies of their foes cold and hellbound. They are the Red Shadows...to their enemies a mortal threat, to the oppressed a cause for hope. But for Fenn they are an opportunity...or certain death.

  What should have been a routine caper involving counterfeit coins turns into something far more complex, as Fenn finds himself the guardian of a lost girl, smuggled into the city for dark purposes. Now he finds himself hunted the vilest gang in the city, pressured by the spymaster of the Prince of the city and drawn into shadowy intrigues that stretch from the gutters of Galadorn to the highest levels of power.

  To protect the girl – and save his own skin – Fenn will do battle in the back alleys and across the rooftops. He joins forces with the Red Shadows, whose enigmatic leader has his own agenda and cares not for the cost.

  And in a final bloody moment, Fenn Aquila will face a decision from which there is no going back...

  THE TALE OF AZARAN

  WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF MEMORY

  Azaran is a man without memory. Pulled from the ocean and put in chains, he remembers nothing of his past beyond his name...and the magical runes branded on his chest that make him faster and stronger then ordinary men. Desperate and confused, he is thrust into a world where the strong prey upon the weak, where vile corsairs plunder the helpless, while hidden masters plot and intrigue to drive the world towards an apocalypse of blood and fire. Joining forces with an exiled priest and a rebel leader, Azaran will lead a revolution against the brutal lord oppressing the Isle of Tereg. With a band of escaped slaves and freedom fighters at his back, he will charge into battle, headed to the edge of memory...where the darkness of his past awaits...

  SHADOW OF THE GHOST BEAR

  Fresh from his triumph on Tereg, Azaran travels to Eburrea, the homeland from which his friend Segovac was exiled twenty years before. A land groaning under the tyranny of a mad King and the Witch Queen who controls him, soaking the realm in bloody sacrifice and endless war. A land burdened with fear and yearning for freedom.

  But all is not as it seems. For the Master knows Azaran is alive, sends his two deadliest servants to hunt him down. Kings and Queens dance at their whim and warbands gather at their command, for Azaran must die and they will burn down entire kingdoms in the process.

  Hunted and betrayed, Azaran and Segovac ally themselves with a rebel prince. Raising the banner of revolt, they gather an army of warriors eager to cast away the shackles of tyranny. And at the final, fiery battle, Azaran will face his enemies and learn the dark truth: that the Master who seeks his death was once the one he served...

  FIRES OF MASTERY

  "Come find me in Kedaj!"

  With that taunt from his enemy, Azaran sets sail across the sea, bound for the city of Kedaj, where the answers to his past await...along with the promise of violence. For he is walking into a trap and knows it. Yet to uncover the secrets of his past, Azaran will place himself into the hand of his enemies.

  But Kedaj will test his strength and will to their limits, for it is a city like no other, ancient and wicked. Where the poor lose themselves in the webs of drug addiction and vice, while the ruling aristocrats scheme for power. And though his body is strong, his mind falls under the thrall of a seductive enchantress, intent on using him for her own intrigues. Meanwhile his friend Segovac, lost in the city streets, searches for a way to rescue his friend and inadvertantly sparks a revolution...

  Rebellion consumes the city of Kedaj, while Azaran fights for his memories...and his sanity. And in the fires of the dying city, he will learn who he is...and the price those answers have cost.

  THE INFINITY KEY

  Azaran has regained his memories, but the cost has been high. His friend Segovac is dead and he is alone in the worldm with only a sword and the desire for vengeance. He heads east into the lands of the Shiraan – fierce steppe nomads who are the terror of the civilized world. Even now they gather, ready to sweep across the world in a storm of war and bloodshed.

  Meanwhile Azaran's former Master Zal'zarrin reaches the culmination of his life's work. High atop the sacred mountain Pentaro, he finds the secret to immortality. But the cost for this is nothing less than the death of the entire world.

  Armies gather for war, as Azaran approaches the sacred mountain. Armed only with his unstoppable will, he will at last confront his former Master. Dreams of redemption will confront desire for eternal life and under the baleful gaze of the Infinity Key Azaran will at last fulfill his destiny...

  THE COMPLETE TALE OF AZARAN

  Azaran is a warrior outside of time and on the edge of memory. Cast on a strange world, he awakens with no knowledge of his past, his body covered with strange runes that give him abilities beyond that of other men. He journeys across a perilous landscape, hunted by mysterious enemies as he seeks the truth of his origins...

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