Lord of Battle

Baylore is preparing for evacuation. The war is all but lost. As the population of Itrea flees to the Icebraid Peaks, in hopes they might find refuge there, Daymin throws his army into one last, desperate campaign to buy his people time. Marching through the Itrean countryside with neither crown nor throne to give him authority, Daymin finally takes on the true mantle of kingship, earning the steadfast loyalty of his army. But the Whitish army is always a step ahead of him, and the campaign soon turns far bloodier than he had bargained on... Meanwhile, Kalleah ventures deep into the Kinship Thrones to seek allies in the Twin Cities. Instead she finds the populace under the cruel thumb of a gang of Whitish brutes, with the kings of both cities helpless to resist. As she tries to make contact with the king of Dardensfell, she is drawn into the web of a conspiracy spanning the Kinship Thrones. They claim to be allies of hers, yet they give her only half-truths. And their machinations could change the course of the war altogether... * * * Lord of Battle is the third epic fantasy in the 6-book Empire of Ash series, which follows 20 years after the Forbidden Queen series. Both series can be read individually.