First in the brand new Assassins of Landria series in the award-winning, bestselling writer of Scourge: A Book of Darkhurst, as well as the Chronicles FROM THE Necromancer books! Close friends since their orphanage years as a child, Joel ‘Ridge’ Breckinridge and Garrett ‘Rett’ Kennard rose through the ranks from the Landrian military collectively, from teenaged conscripts to seasoned fighters. Together, they became the most feared team of assassins in Landria, surviving longer that a lot of in their profession by virtue of exceptional fighting skills, famous bravado, peerless strategy, and an uncanny synchronicity. Henri, their long-suffering squire, tends to the thankless careers of provisioning and logistics, while Ridge and Rett combat and recover. When wandering mystic Yefim Makary becomes the darling of disenchanted aristocrats, Rett and Ridge fear Makary-or the Witch Lord, as his supporters call him-is a threat to the crown. As treasonous whispers pass on, Ridge and Rett move rogue to avoid the threat, conserve the kingdom and protect the king-while getting around the ‘Most Wished’ list themselves!