Аннотация

1. Quill
The fate of empire is to crumble from within. A heinous murder in a small village reveals a terrible truth. Sorcery, once thought dead in Enhover, is not. Evidence of an occult ritual and human sacrifice proves that dark power has been called upon again. Twisting threads of clues lead across the known world to the end of a vast empire, and then, the trail returns home. Duke Oliver Wellesley, son of the king, cartographer, and adventurer, has better things to do than investigate a murder in a sleepy fishing hamlet. For Crown and Company, though, he goes where he’s told. As the investigation leads to deeper and darker places, he’ll be forced to confront the horrific spectres rising from the shadows of his past. When faced with the truth, will he sacrifice what is necessary to survive? Samantha serves a Church that claims to no longer need her skills. She’s apprenticed to a priest-assassin that no one knows. Driven by a mad prophecy, her mentor has prepared her for a battle with ultimate darkness, except, sorcery is dead. When all is at stake, can she call upon an arcane craft the rest of the world has forgotten?

2. Steel
The fate of empire is to crumble from within. Solving one mystery opened the door to another. Duke Oliver Wellesley and the priestess-assassin Samantha will delve deeper into a world of sorcery & secrets. They will travel to the abandoned, haunted parts of the world, looking for answers. The blood will flow as the puppet-masters step from the shadows to enact a horrific occult ritual they’ve spent two decades fashioning. Oliver Wellesley will have to confront terrible secrets that will shatter the core of who he is. What he believed to be truth is not, who he believed his allies are not, and who he thought dead is living. When Oliver realizes that he laid the cards for a bloody uprising, will there be anything he can do to save himself? Faced with threats she does not have the strength to confront, Samantha must seek help from a Church that’s never trusted her. If they do not send the help she needs, then her path grows long and dark. Will Samantha be able earn the loyalty of her peers, or will she move closer to what they seek to destroy? The fate of empire is to crumble from within. Do not ask when, ask who.

3. Spirit
The fate of empire is to crumble from within. Duke Oliver Wellesley and the Priestess Samantha unmasked and destroyed a cabal of sorcerers planning an incredible sacrifice. But preventing the horrific bloodshed left lingering questions, and new attacks close to home prove the danger is not over. Oliver must choose between his responsibilities to his family and the Crown, and seeking answers over the far horizon. As he struggles with the weight of expectation, he discovers new powers and an ancient magic that has been long forgotten. The tide of sorcery rises, and Oliver begins to understand that a sharp quill and a steel broadsword are not enough. To face the threat of the underworld, he’ll have to call upon the spirits of life. Sam’s occult knowledge continues to grow, but in the face of new monsters, she realizes it is not enough, and the path to true strength is a dark one. Knowing the risk, she hesitates, but an unusual mentor opens the door to secrets best left unknown, and grants the opportunity to exceed what she thought was possible. But once upon it, the dark path is a difficult one to turn from, and the spirits of the underworld are treacherous allies.