Greymane believed he’d outrun his past. With his college for swordsmanship in Falar, he was getting excited about a quiet life, although his colleague Kyle wasn’t as enamoured with life beyond your mercenary organization, the Crimson Safeguard. However, it seems it isn’t so easy for an ex-Fist from the Malazan Empire to vanish, especially one under word of loss of life from that same Empire.

For there’s a new Emperor within the throne of Malaz, and he’s dwelling around the ignominy this is the Empire’s failed about Stonewielder: Epic Fantasy: Malazan Empire invasion of the Korel subcontinent. In the vaults beneath Unta, the Imperial capital, lie the answers to that devastation. And out of this buried history areas the name Stonewielder.

In Korel, Lord Protector Hiam, commander of the Stormguard, faces the annihilation of most that he holds dear. With few remaining men and a crumbling stone wall that has noticed better times, he confronts an ancient foe: the sea-borne Stormriders have returned.

Spiritual war also threatens these lands. The cult of the Blessed Lady, which had stood firm against the Riders for millennia, right now seeks to eliminate its rivals. So that as chaos looms, a local magistrate investigating a series of murders suddenly discovers himself at the heart of a far more ancient and terrifying criminal offense – one which has tainted an entire land….

Stonewielder is an enthralling new chapter in the epic tale of a thrillingly imagined globe.