Crimson Castle

He cannot die. He has been trying for sixteen hundred years to learn why.

The siege is over. The Queen is dead, the kingdom of Vellmark has fallen, and King Casimir has stepped off a tower in a storm and woken up alive. Every attempt since has failed. Poison. Wounds. Time itself.

So he does the only thing a man who cannot die can do. He goes looking for the answer.

Book Two of the Crimson Castle series follows Casimir across the centuries. He wanders the burned valleys, hunts a monstrous thing that steals men's names, and answers a stranger's letter from the steppe. He builds a house in the forest, Rothberg, where the clocks keep no time and a second place is laid at the table every October for someone who never comes. Cooks, librarians, stewards and housekeepers serve the immortal king, grow old, and are buried. Far away in Berlin, a young copyist notices that the old drawings of a grey woman have one face scratched out.

Then the villagers begin to whisper a name. Draco. Drakul. The one who is not dead.

Somebody is measuring Casimir. Somebody wants what he owes. After centuries of silence, the one who set the scales is finally ready to be found.

For readers who love dark historical fantasy, immortal heroes, slow-burning mystery and the true origins of a legend.

Book Two of the Crimson Castle series. Read Book One first.