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About the Book:
Title: THE RAGE OF SAINTS (The Shadow Watch series
Book #2)
Author: S.A. Klopfenstein
Pub. Date: March 26, 2019
Publisher: Guardian Grey
Publishing
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 507
The thrilling second installment in the Shadow
Watch series!
The Shadow Watch has
been undone. Their captain lies in the dungeons of the White Citadel, and the
Gallows Girl has disappeared. Most of the surviving Watchers have joined the
chancellor's new magical army, the Sky Guard, led by Darien Redvar, but the Gallows
Boy is shaken from the return of the monsters of the Old World, and he must
soon choose, once and for all, where his loyalties lie.
Tori and Mischa trek
to the Great White North with an Alyut shaman, who believes Tori is the one who
will bring Restoration to his people. A resistance is growing in the North, but
Tori may not be the god the people are looking for, and the price of revolution
may cost Tori her heart as well as her life.
Meanwhile, another
threat grows in strength. Old World monsters are rising up across the New
World, and no one knows how they've returned. As nations ready themselves for a
magical war, their return threatens to change everything.
New alliances are set
in place, new friendships are forged, new loves kindled. But no one is safe,
for there can be no war without betrayal.
Don't miss this the latest installment in the
epic fantasy series readers are comparing to Mistborn and Throne of Glass!
About Book 1:
Title: THE SHADOW WATCH (The
Shadow Watch #1)
Author: S.A. Klopfenstein
Pub. Date: May 15, 2018
Publisher: Guardian Grey
Publishing
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 420
For centuries, the
Oshan Empire has ruled the New World with terror and blood. The Watchers have
been eradicated, and their sorcery is but a whispered myth. But the heart of
magic beats on, and as it surges back to life, three young people will
determine the fate of the world…
Tori Burodai, a
strong-willed slave girl. Her magic could ignite a revolution, but only if she
resists the ruler who wants to use her powers to restore the empire to its
former glory.
Darien Redvar, the
idealistic soldier she loves. His rage leads him down a dark path to power that
could turn him against the one person he cares for.
Kale Andovier, a
lordling rebel with a torturous past. His quest for a weapon of dark sorcery
will thrust him into a twisted game of power that could change the world
forever.
Will the return of
magic transform the New World, or bring it to ruin?
Excerpt from THE RAGE OF SAINTS (Prologue)
Cyrus Maro—the sixteenth Chancellor of Osha—should have been pleased.
Exuberant, even. The leaders of the Shadow Watch lay in the dungeons beneath
the White Citadel, their magic-rich blood filling him with power each day. Many
of the Watchers had chosen to serve him rather than suffer this horrid fate,
which made Cyrus Maro even more powerful. Monsters ravaged the New World for
the first time in centuries, and the people of Osha looked to their chancellor
as though he were their god.
And he was their god. When the
chancellor revealed his magic to the people of Osha, the day he paraded the
Watchers through the streets of Maro’El, their mouths had gaped with awe;
they’d knelt in reverence as he’d ridden past. Magic had returned to the world
at his hand.
Nothing had gone according to plan, but everything had turned out better
than he ever could have dreamed.
The monsters that had come through the portal between the worlds had been
unanticipated, but they had turned into a precious opportunity. Rulaqs and
Nosferati had returned from the realm of nightmares and myths to ravage the
world. The people of Osha were afraid, and fear made them loyal. Their
chancellor wielded power unknown in all the New World, and his new magical
army, the Sky Guard, would keep the empire safe from hellish beasts.
While other nations plunged into chaos, Osha would remain strong, and the
people of the North would be grateful, worshipful.
Cyrus Maro was more powerful than his father, and his father before him. He
was far more powerful than Loras, his precious, perfect brother, had ever been.
But it was not enough.
It was as though Loras had returned from the dead to taunt him with this
fact, as he had taunted Cyrus with his magical prowess when they were children.
Of course, like their parents, Loras had not practiced his magic… much. It was
this self-denial that held the empire together, their father had liked to say.
Cyrus had showed no prowess to deny himself of, but he had always thought it a
ludicrous notion. Self-denial had made his father—and all his forefathers, and
especially Loras—weak, far weaker than Cyrus had ever been.
Cyrus had fashioned his own
power. No longer would an Oshan chancellor be mocked by foreign dignitaries as
a vestige of another time. No longer would the nobles rule the empire like
puppeteers.
Now, more than ever, the chancellor was revered and feared. But for one
thing:
The Gallows Girl.
Cyrus Maro had hoped that in the turmoil of Old World monsters ravaging the
New World, the Gallows Girl might be forgotten. It had been weeks since she’d
been lost in the catacombs beneath the Crooked Teeth. And many months since any
common person had seen her. Yet here he was, on the balcony where he first
drank the Gallows Girl’s blood, and it was time to inflict pain on her account
once more.
There came a knock on the balcony doors. A Morph announced the arrival of
his visitor, and Cyrus motioned for them to enter.
“The noble traitor, Ren, of House Andovier,” the attendant announced.
“That’s Captain Andovier,” murmured Ren weakly but defiantly as he entered.
The Watcher was escorted to the balcony by a traitor to his own cause.
Dajha Bhati was one of the first Watchers to join the chancellor’s Sky Guard,
and he was all too eager to demonstrate his new loyalties. He led Ren with a shove
that sent him to his knees.
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