Blood and Storms

The Golden Empire was forged by conquest, preserved by blood-and entrusted to families powerful enough to destroy it.

Among them stands House Kaesarian. Its armies cross kingdoms. Its name carries the weight of victories, obligations and enemies who have not forgotten. To be born beneath its red lion is to inherit duty before desire, and a history whose deepest truths have been lost.

Now war gathers beyond the Empire's northern reaches. Forbidden power moves beneath its laws. Old rivalries sharpen within its courts-and four Kaesarian siblings find themselves carrying the ambitions of a house that has already decided what each of their lives must become.

They have been taught that the House must endure whatever the cost. Yet loyalty is not obedience, and a family can carry only so many ambitions, rivalries and secrets before blood becomes another kind of battlefield.

Blood and Storms is a sweeping, multi-POV epic fantasy of dynastic politics, brutal warfare, forbidden power and the intimate fractures that can bring kingdoms down.

Every empire has its fault lines. The deepest run through blood.

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Cracks of Chaos opens through two parallel novels. Blood and Storms and Chains and Shadows may be read in either order; each reveals what the other leaves unseen.