A new novel from internationally bestselling author Raymond E. Feist.

The world of Garn once boasted five great kingdoms, until the King of Ithrace was defeated and every person in his family executed by Lodavico, the ruthless King of Sandura, a man with ambitions to rule the world.

Ithrace’s ruling family were the legendary Firemanes, and represented an excellent danger towards the other kings. Right now four great kingdoms remain, within the brink of war. But rumour provides it how the newborn about King of Ashes boy of the last king of Ithrace survived, transported off during fight and sequestered from the Quelli Nacosti, a magic formula society whose people are qualified to infiltrate and spy upon the wealthy and powerful throughout Garn. Terrified that this may be accurate, and that the kid will grow to maturity with bloody revenge in his heart, the four kings possess placed an enormous bounty within the child’s head.

In the tiny village of Oncon, Declan is apprenticed to a grasp blacksmith, learning the secrets of making the mythical king’s steel. Oncon can be found in the Covenant, a neutral area resting between two warring kingdoms. Because the Covenant was declared, the region provides existed in serenity, until assault explodes as slavers descend upon the community to capture teenagers to press as soldiers for Sandura.

Declan must get away, to take his priceless knowledge to Baron Daylon Dumarch, ruler of Marquensas, perhaps the only man who can defeat Lodavico of Sandura, who has allied himself with the fanatical Chapel of the main one, which is marching over the continent, imposing its great form of religion upon the populace and burning unbelievers as they go.

Meanwhile, on the isle of Coaltachin, the secret domain of the Quelli Nacosti, 3 friends are getting schooled in the dangerous arts of espionage and assassination: Donte, kid of one of the most powerful masters from the order; Hava, a serious lady with fighting capabilities that can established any opponent on their back again; and Hatu, a strange, conflicted lad in whom fury and relaxed war constantly, whose hair is certainly a bright and fiery tone of red…