PREVIEW: The Shieldbreaker Saga

The Etela have lived in the dry plains and red-rocked deserts on the southern border of the Disputed Lands for centuries, watching the two great empires of the age battle for control of the region—and often selling their prodigious military talents to the highest bidder.

After sixty years of uninterrupted warfare, Rune and Imandris are both completely spent and on the verge of total collapse, leaving behind a power vacuum on their frontier as their forces retreat or splinter.

A massive army of northern horse warriors has swarmed over the Brul Mountains to take advantage of the chaos, offering everyone in the Disputed Lands a choice: become vassals or corpses.

And the Etela’s gods curse those who surrender.

Now, only nineteen-year-old Kareva, chieftain of the tribe of Hodrir, stands between his people and extinction—and he’s got demons of his own to contend with.

Here’s to the dead and the dying. This is The Shieldbreaker Saga.