A deal struck in a dark place set an outlaw mage on the path to revenge. And now that it's led to places even darker, she and everyone she knows may pay the price for her bargain in the final novel of "an unforgettable epic fantasy" trilogy (Publisher's Weekly).
Sal the Cacophony has made few friends, but many enemies. Many, many enemies. When her magic was taken from her, she cried out for revenge. And a power she never understood promised her vengeance. A deal for a bloody price was made.
And now the bill has come due.
In one of the last free cities of the burned-out ruin of the Scar, Sal's many foes-old and new-have hunted down her and her few allies-willing and otherwise -- and all her plans to save them might not be enough.
One last stand. One more story. One final blade to be drawn.
For more from Sam Sykes, check out: The Grave of Empires:Seven Blades in BlackTen Arrows of IronThree Axes to Fall Bring Down Heaven:The City Stained RedThe Mortal TallyGod's Last Breath The Affinity for Steel Trilogy:Tome of the UndergatesBlack HaloThe Skybound Sea
An outcast mage caught between two warring empires must either save the world or destroy everything she loves in the second novel of 'an unforgettable epic fantasy' trilogy (Publishers Weekly).
Sal the Cacophony -- outlaw, outcast, outnumbered -- destroys all that she loves. Her lover lost and cities burned in her wake, all she has left is her magical gun and her all-consuming quest for revenge against those who stole her power and took the sky from her.
When the roguish agent of a mysterious patron offers her the chance to participate in a heist to steal an incredible power from the famed airship fleet, the Ten Arrows, she finds a new purpose. But a plot to save the world by bringing down empires swiftly escalates into a conspiracy of magic and vengeance that threatens to burn everything to ash, including herself.
For more from Sam Sykes, check out:
The Grave of Empires:Seven Blades in BlackTen Arrows of Iron
Bring Down Heaven:The City Stained RedThe Mortal TallyGod's Last Breath
The Affinity for Steel Trilogy:Tome of the UndergatesBlack HaloThe Skybound Sea
Sieben Namen auf einer Liste. Sieben Magier mit schwarzen Klingen. Und eine Frau, die auf Rache sinnt ...
Das wüste Land Scar, gelegen inmitten dreier verfeindeter Reiche, ist die Heimat von Vagabunden, Magiern und Verbrechern. Der perfekte Ort für einen Rachefeldzug. Bewaffnet mit einer magischen Pistole, einem Schwert namens Jeff und einer Flasche Whiskey zieht die gefürchtete Söldnerin Sal durch das Land, auf der Suche nach den Männern, die ihr alles genommen haben: Ihre Magie, ihren Namen und beinahe auch ihr Leben. Als sie auf eine Liste stößt, die die Namen von sieben ihrer Widersacher enthält, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie schon bald mitten in einen tödlichen Kampf gegen schwarze Magie, Monster und sieben Magier mit schwarzen Klingen geraten wird.
Regie: Anna-Lena Kühner
Acclaimed author Sam Sykes returns with the second thrilling novel in his Bring Down Heaven series. The heart of civilization bleeds. Cier'Djaal, once the crowning glory of the civilized world, has gone from a city to a battlefield and a battlefield to a graveyard. Foreign armies clash relentlessly on streets laden with the bodies of innocents caught in the crossfire. Cultists and thieves wage shadow wars, tribal armies foment outside the city's walls, and haughty aristocrats watch the world burn from on high. As his companions struggle to keep the city from destroying itself, Lenk travels to the Forbidden East in search of the demon who caused it all. But even as he pursues Khoth-Kapira, dark whispers plague his thoughts. Khoth-Kapira promises him a world free of war where Lenk can put down his sword at last. And Lenk finds it hard not to listen. When gods are deaf, demons will speak.
Acclaimed author Sam Sykes returns with the exhilarating conclusion to his Bring Down Heaven trilogy. The great demon Khoth-Kapira has broken free of his prison and taken his first step upon the mortal world. And he owes it all to Lenk. Believing that the demon will heal a broken world that the gods have abandoned, Lenk serves as reluctant champion to Khoth-Kapira's cause. But as the desperate and fearful flock to Khoth-Kapira's banner, begging for salvation, Lenk begins to doubt his patron's great designs. The city of Cier'Djaal, meanwhile, has become the field for the last great battle of mortals. And as humans, shicts and tulwar prepare to tear each other apart, none are aware of the ancient horror that marches upon their tiny wars. At the tip of a spear or beneath the heel of demons, the reign of mortals ends.
Shaia Shy Ratani is a clever rogue who makes her living outside of strictly legal methods. While hiding out in the frontier city of Yanmass, she accepts a job solving a nobleman's murder, only to find herself sucked into a plot involving an invading centaur army that could see the whole city burned to the ground. Shy could stop that from happening, but doing so would involve revealing herself to the former friends who now want her dead. Add in an aristocratic partner with the literal blood of angels in her veins, and Shy quickly remembers why she swore off doing good deeds in the first place.
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STEP UP TO THE GATES
After years in the wilds, Lenk and his companions have come to the city that serves as the world's beating heart.
The great charnel house where men die surer than any wilderness.
They've come to claim payment for creatures slain, blood spilled at the behest of a powerful holy man.
And Lenk has come to lay down his sword for good.
But this is no place to escape demons.
A witch, a reanimated Crusader Knight, and two members of the church are bestowed with an immense task. So begins an unlikely and accidental alliance between these ill-assorted characters as they strive to slay the dragon Ziegfried, which is terrorising the countryside.
Diana Gabaldon, New York Times bestselling author of the immensely popular Outlander series, teams up with son Samuel Sykes to pen this supremely funny satire on religion, sexism and power. A decidedly unusual pairing, half-breed sorceress Armecia and her constantly stoned sidekick, Sir Leonard of Savhael, join forces with a cowardly church vassal and a giantess posing as a nun. Their quest? To catch and kill Zeigfried, a fiery—if not too fearsome—dragon.
