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In this LiveJournal Q&A from a few years ago, Elliott gave The Black Wolves as the working title for the first in a new trilogy set in the Crossroads milieu, which is vaguely corroborated by this report from a reading where she mentioned that "some members of the audience... might be familiar with aspects of the work."


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Untitled Fantasy by Daniel Polansky – 9 October

And speaking of secondary-world fantasy… Daniel brought his fantastic Low Town series to a close last year with She Who Waits. But it’s not the last you’ll be hearing from him. We’re incredibly proud to be publishing Daniel’s next series, beginning in October, set in an entirely new world. Where the Low Town books were The Wire set in a crumbling fantasy megalopolis, Daniel’s new series is even bigger: it’s Tolkien meets The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and if that doesn’t get your blood pumping, then nothing can.

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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel (Publisher: 4th Estate)

Release Date: 4th September,2014

A new collection of contemporary short stories by Man Booker Prize-winning Hilary Mantel – titled The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – will be published this year.

4th Estate will publish the book on 4th September after acquiring the rights from Bill Hamilton at A.M. Heath.

Nicholas Pearson, publishing director at 4th Estate, said: “A new book from Hilary Mantel is a treat. Where her last two novels explore how modern England was forged, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher shows us the country we have become. These stories are Mantel at her observant best.”

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher will be published simultaneously by HarperCollins Canada and Henry Holt in the U.S.

Consumed by David Cronenberg (Publisher: Scribner)

Release Date: September 2, 2014

Consumed is exactly what fans of Cronenberg's films would expect from his first novel: hypnotic, darkly comic, with vividly drawn characters moving through a landscape that at first seems alien, only to become curiously familiar. It is dark yet mischievously humorous; recognisable yet disturbingly uncanny. There is an interest in - and fetishisation of - technology, and the way we interface with the world; there is an undercurrent of perverse sexuality. In it, the imaginative brilliance of J.G. Ballard is married with stylistic verve of William Gibson.

The exhilarating debut novel by iconic filmmaker David Cronenberg: the story of two journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher’s death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy.

Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitors—nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows.

Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide has disappeared. Police suspect him of killing her and consuming parts of her body. With the help of an eccentric graduate student named Hervé Blomqvist, Naomi sets off in pursuit of Aristide. As she delves deeper into Célestine and Aristide's lives, disturbing details emerge about their sex life—which included trysts with Hervé and others. Can Naomi trust Hervé to help her?

Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltán Molnár, once sought by Interpol for organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of Molnár’s patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe’s. Nathan then travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret.

These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. Consumed is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors.

See You Tomorrow by Tore Renberg (Publisher: Arcadia)

Release Date: August,2014

Arcadia has signed world English rights to a “haunting, neo-noir” novel by a Norwegian author.

The 600-page See You Tomorrow by Tore Renberg (pictured) has sold 18,000 in hardback in Norway and the author has been hailed as one of the writers leading a “new literary Golden Age” in the country by national newspaper Expressen. Rights have also sold in Sweden, Holland and France as well as Norway and the UK.

The book is described as a “fast-paced, moving and darkly funny page-turner about people who are trying to fill the holes in their lives” and tells of a messy love story, friendship, crime, loneliness and tragic death.

A love story about young couples who are willing to risk everything.

A feel-good novel about a group of gangsters with a leader in midlife crisis.

A page-turner about a man who needs a million bucks.

A haunting neo-noir drama from the underbelly of the richest city in the world.

Pål has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much bigger than he can ever hope to pay down on his modest civil servant salary. He desperately doesn’t want anybody to find out – especially not his teenage daughters or his ex-wife. It is time to get creative.

Sixteen-year-old Sandra, too, has a secret. She is in love with the impossibly charming delinquent Daniel William, a love so strong and pure nothing can come in its way. Not her concerned parents, not Jesus, and certainly not some other girl.

Cecilie carries the biggest secret of them all, a baby growing inside her. She can only hope that her boyfriend Rudi is the child's father. But although she loves him intensely, she feels trapped in their small-time criminal existence, and dreams of an escape from it all.

Over three fateful September days, these lives cross in a whirlwind of brutality, laughter, tragedy and love that will change them forever. Tore Renberg has written a fast-paced, moving and darkly funny page-turner about people who are trying to fill the holes in their lives, a messy love story with strong ties to the modern TV drama. Combining Nordic social realism and Western popular culture, horror and hope, metal music and literary marvels, See You Tomorrow is a startlingly original, eerie and hilarious novel about friendship, crime, loneliness and tragic death – that will stay with the reader long after the last page is devoured.

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (Publisher: Canongate)

Release Date: November 2014

Canongate has signed world rights to a "significant" new novel from author Michel Faber and will publish in November 2014.

The Book of Strange New Things will be Faber's first novel since publication of The Crimson Petal and the White more than 10 years ago.

The book is said to open with a man saying goodbye to his wife before setting out on a perilous journey as a Christian missionary and is described as "an unexpected and wildly original novel about adventure, faith and the ties that might hold two people together when they are worlds apart." Key elements of the story will be withheld until publication.

Canongate publishing director Francis Bickmore said the novel will be somewhere between Under the Skin and The Crimson Petal in length and is "Faber at his expectation-defying best," calling it "a brilliantly compelling book about love in the face of death, and the search for meaning in an unfathomable universe".

"Readers won’t have encountered anything quite like it before," he promised.

Bickmore added: "We're incredibly ambitious for publication; we're so excited about the quality of the writing and the ambition of the project. Michel Faber is one of the most significant writers in the English language at the moment and this book delivers on that promise."

Faber has previously tackled the subject of religious belief in novella The Fire Gospel, on the theme of religious fundamentalism.

A film of Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, is due for UK release in March.

Time of the Locust by Morowa Yejide (Publisher: Atria Books)

Release Date: June 10, 2014

Travel into the heart and mind of an extraordinary autistic boy in this deeply imaginative debut novel of a mother’s devotion, a father’s punishment, and the power of love.

Sephiri is an autistic boy who lives in a world of his own making, where he dwells among imagined sea creatures that help him process information in the “real world” in which he is forced to live. But lately he has been having dreams of a mysterious place, and he starts creating fantastical sketches of this strange, inner world.

Brenda, Sephiri’s mother, struggles with raising her challenged child alone. Her only wish is to connect with him—a smile on his face would be a triumph. Meanwhile, Sephiri’s father, Horus, is sentenced to life in prison, making life even lonelier for Brenda and Sephiri. Yet prison is still not enough to separate father and son. In the seventh year of his imprisonment and the height of his isolation, Horus develops supernatural mental abilities that allow him to reach his son. Memory and yearning carry him outside his body, and through the realities of their ordeals and dreamscape, Horus and Sephiri find each other—and find hope in ways never imagined.

Deftly portrayed by the remarkable and talented up-and-comer Morowa Yejidé, Time of the Locust is a brilliant narrative about the psychological realms of solitude, youth, and wonder. At its heart, this is a harrowing, surreal, and redemptive journey to the union of a family.

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From Tor Books (via Amazon):


Exo (Jumper #4) by Steven Gould – (September 9, 2014)

Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection by Jay Lake – (September 16, 2014)

Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon (Gideon Smith #2) by David Barnett – (September 16, 2014)

The Seventh Sigil (Dragon Brigade #3) by Margaret Weis & Robert Krammes – (September 23, 2014)

Willful Child by Steven Erikson – (October 7, 2014)

Silverblind (Ironskin #3) by Tina Connolly – (October 7, 2014)

The Shotgun Arcana by R. S. Belcher – (October 7, 2014)

Hawk (Vlad Taltos #14) by Steven Brust (October 7, 2014)

The Time Roads (Éireann #2) by Beth Bernobich - (October 14, 2014)

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Author) , Ken Liu (Translator) – (October 14, 2014)

Lowball (Wild Cards #22) edited by George R.R. Martin & Melinda Snodgrass – (November 1, 2014)

Fear City by F. Paul Wilson – (November 11, 2014)

The Traders' War: A Merchnat Princes Omnibus by Charles Stross – (November 11, 2014)


From Gollancz:


The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett (2 Oct 2014)


From Solaris Books:


Nychtophobia by Christopher Fowler (9 Oct 2014)

Fearsome Magics edited by Jonathan Strahan (9 Oct 2014)



From Prime Books:


The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 edited by Paula Guran (July 2014)


Contents (in alphabetical order by author’s last name):

  • “Postcards from Abroad,” Peter Atkins (Rolling Darkness Revue 2013, Earthling Publications)
  • “The Creature Recants,” Dale Bailey (Clarkesworld, Issue 85, October 2013)
  • “The Good Husband,” Nathan Ballingrud (North American Lake Monsters, Small Beer Press)
  • “Termination Dust,” Laird Barron (Tales of Jack the Ripper, ed. Ross Lockhart, Word Horde)
  • “The Ghost Makers,” Elizabeth Bear (Fearsome Journeys, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris)
  • “The Marginals,” Steve Duffy (The Moment of Panic, PSPublishing)
  • “A Collapse of Horses,” Brian Evenson (The American Reader, Feb/Mar 2013)
  • “A Lunar Labyrinth,” Neil Gaiman (Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe, eds. J. E. Mooney & Bill Fawcett, Tor)
  • “Pride,” Glen Hirshberg (Rolling Darkness Revue 2013, Earthling Publications)
  • “Let My Smile Be Your Umbrella,” Brian Hodge (Psycho-Mania!, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson)
  • “The Soul in the Bell Jar,” K. J. Kabza (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2013)
  • “The Prayer of Ninety Cats,” Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Online, Spring 2013)
  • “Dark Gardens,” Greg Kurzawa (Interzone # 248)
  • “A Little of the Night,” Tanith Lee (Clockwork Phoenix 4, ed. Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium)
  • “The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning,” Joe R. Lansdale (Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s First Detective, ed. Paul Kane & Charles Prepole, Titan)
  • “Iseul’s Lexicon,” Yoon Ha Lee (Conservation of Shadows, Prime Books)
  • “The Plague” Ken Liu (Nature, 16 May 2013)
  • “The Slipway Gray,” Helen Marshall (Chilling Tales 2, ed. Michael Kelly, Edge Publications)
  • “To Die for Moonlight,” Sarah Monette (Apex Magazine, Issue #50)
  • “Event Horizon,” Sunny Moraine (Strange Horizons, 21 Oct 2013)
  • “The Legend of Troop 13,” Kit Reed (Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan 2013 / The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories, Wesleyan)
  • “Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell,” Brandon Sanderson (Dangerous Women, eds. George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, Tor)
  • “Phosphorous,” Veronica Schanoes, (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, eds. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Tor)
  • “Blue Amber,” David J. Schow (Impossible Monsters, ed. Kasey Lansdale, Subterranean Press)
  • “Rag and Bone,” Priya Sharma (Tor.com, 10 April 2013)
  • “Our Lady of Ruins”, Sarah Singleton (The Dark 2, Dec 2013)
  • “Cuckoo,” Angela Slatter (A Killer Among Demons, ed. Craig Bezant, Dark Prints Press)
  • “Wheatfield with Crows,” Steve Rasnic Tem (Dark World: Ghost Stories, ed. Timothy Parker Russell, Tartarus Press)
  • “Moonstruck,” Karin Tidbeck (Shadows and Tall Trees, Vol. 5, ed. Mike Kelly, Undertow)
  • “The Dream Detective,” Lisa Tuttle (Lightspeed, Mar 2013)
  • “Fishwife,” Carrie Vaughn (Nightmare, Jun 2013
  • “Air, Water and the Grove,” Kaaron Warren (The Lowest Heaven, eds Anne C. Perry & Jared Shurin, Jurassic London)

http://www.prime-books.com/2014/01/17/the-years-best-dark-fantasy-horror-2014-edited-by-paula-guran/


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Those Above by Daniel Polansky (Hodder & Stoughton)


Publication Date: October 9, 2014



The Deadlands by Benjamin Percy (Hodder & Stoughton)


Publication Date: October 9, 2014






The Forever Watch by David Ramirez


Publication Date: April 22, 2014 (U.S.)

Publication Date: May 2014 (U.K.)





An exciting new novel from a bold up-and-coming sci fi talent, The Forever Watch is so full of twists and surprises it's impossible to put down.



All that is left of humanity is on a thousand-year journey to a new planet aboard one ship, The Noah, which is also carrying a dangerous serial killer...


As a City Planner on the Noah, Hana Dempsey is a gifted psychic, economist, hacker and bureaucrat and is considered "mission critical." She is non-replaceable, important, essential, but after serving her mandatory Breeding Duty, the impregnation and birthing that all women are obligated to undergo, her life loses purpose as she privately mourns the child she will never be permitted to know.


When Policeman Leonard Barrens enlists her and her hacking skills in the unofficial investigation of his mentor's violent death, Dempsey finds herself increasingly captivated by both the case and Barrens himself. According to Information Security, the missing man has simply "Retired," nothing unusual. Together they follow the trail left by the mutilated remains. Their investigation takes them through lost dataspaces and deep into the uninhabited regions of the ship, where they discover that the answer may not be as simple as a serial killer after all.


What they do with that answer will determine the fate of all humanity in this thrilling page turner.







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The Dark Blood (The Long War #2) by A.J. Smith (Head of Zeus)


Publication Date: 3 July 2014





In the court of every city in the lands of Ro, a sorceress sits. And in the minds of that city's people, each sorceress weaves a song. She and her sisters sing of the liberation of the land, the taming of the highland tribes, and the birth of a precious new race: the children of a dead god.



Of course, they do not sing of the death of young Prince Christophe at the hands of that god. Particularly as his replacement dances so well to their tune.


Yet all songs have an end. An ending speeded when the assassin Rham Jas Rami accepts a commission from Bromvy Black Guard, traitor duke of Canarn.


The rebellion of Ro has begun...






Sword of the North (The Grim Company #2) by Luke Scull (Head of Zeus)


Publication Date: 19 June, 2014





Some legends never die...



Between the Demonfire Hills and the Shattered Realms, three rich and mighty cities flourished. Each city was protected by the power of their Magelord; each Magelord protected by an ancient truce. But no longer. The City of Shades is drowned. The Grey City enslaved. The barrier between the worlds is failing and only the Magelord of the City of Towers still lives to protect her people.


Until the arrival of a blind wanderer. A man who calls himself Crow...







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Acolyte (Reviver #2) by Seth Patrick (Thomas Dunne Books)
November 11, 2014

The second in the genre-bending trilogy delivers chilling twists as a forensic detective revives the dead to exhume a world changing conspiracy.
After the life-altering events of Reviver, Jonah Miller, the world’s most powerful forensic revivalist, is caught between standing up for what he knows is right, and protecting the job he loves.
But the tide is turning. Those who campaign against revival have redoubled their efforts. Better funded, their polemic is working. Public opinion, usually supportive of the revivers, is becoming uneasy.
Then a bizarrely mutilated body is found. The cause of death baffles police, but Jonah suspects that there are other forces at work, forces just as destructive as those he has already faced.
When research efforts begin again to explore the source of revival, old faces reappear and Jonah’s world starts to unravel. As the research closes in on dangerous truths, Jonah and his friends find there’s nowhere left to go; no-one left to trust.
And in the darkness, something is coming.

Seeders by A. J. Colucci (Thomas Dunne Books)
July 15, 2014

A horrifying sci-fi thriller that brilliantly evokes The Shining and Scott Smith's The Ruins
George Brookes, a 75-year old recluse on a small Canadian island, is plagued by guilt, afraid that his botany experiments have released a monster upon the world. He climbs to the top of a cliff and jumps to his death.
Several weeks later, six people arrive on the island, heirs to George’s estate: his daughter, Isabelle, and her three teenagers, Jules Beecher, a friend and fellow botanist, and Ginny Shufflebottom, a contentious Englishwoman who funded George’s research. They will be isolated on the frigid island for two weeks, until the next supply boat arrives.
In the laboratory, Jules reads over piles of notes and realizes that George may have achieved the most monumental breakthrough in the history of modern science: communication between humans and plants. Jules knows that the idea of plant intelligence has long been regarded as quackery among conventional scientists, but George’s experiments could prove the theories that Jules has been working on all his life. However, the notes are incomplete, and it's unclear whether George’s findings are real or the ramblings of a madman. In the woods, Jules begins to have disturbing visions. A fierce storm hits, the power goes out, and a night of terror begins. Isabelle and the others are stalked by Jules and his crossbow, and plagued by the feeling that something on the island does not want them there.
A.J. Colucci's new novel is a feast of horror and suspense sure to please fans of Stephen King.

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From Angry Robot Books:
The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter (Fall of the Gaslit Empire #1) by Rod Duncan
Pub Date: 2nd September 2014
The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga #1) by Kameron Hurley
Pub Date: September 2014
Angry Robot Signs Award-Winning Author Kameron Hurley in Two-Book Deal
Angry Robot is excited to announce the signing of Kameron Hurley – the award-winning author of God’s War – for at least two books in the Worldbreaker Saga. Book 1, The Mirror Empire, will be published worldwide in September this year, with the sequel to follow a year later.

About The Mirror Empire:
On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past… while a world goes to war with itself.
In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind nothing but ash and ruin.
As the dark star of the cataclysm rises, an illegitimate ruler is tasked with holding together a country fractured by civil war, a precocious young fighter is asked to betray his family and a half-Dhai general must choose between the eradication of her father’s people or loyalty to her alien Empress.
Through tense alliances and devastating betrayal, the Dhai and their allies attempt to hold against a seemingly unstoppable force as enemy nations prepare for a coming together of worlds as old as the universe itself.
In the end, one world will rise – and many will perish.

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I know this isn't terribly reliable information, but Amazon UK's listings for Orbit's forthcoming books include an entry for "Untitled Clakkers Novel 1" by Ian Tregillis scheduled for October this year. This, if accurate, would be the first of Tregillis' alternate history steampunk series, which he has mentioned in a couple interviews.



To balance out the good fortune that will see us getting Kameron Hurley's The Mirror Empire so quickly [see AtB's post above], Amazon US' entry for N. K. Jemisin's next novel The Fifth Season, the first in her post-apocalyptic epic fantasy The Broken Earth, has been pushed a full year, to August 2015. It's very possible this is just a momentary screwup -- Amazon has belched this way before -- but would be disappointing if true.


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MULHOLLAND Books 2014:




Quercus Books:


INTO THE FIRE by Peter Liney (3rd July 2014)



THE CHILD EATER by Rachel Pollack (3rd July 2014)


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Update from Blake Charlton:



http://www.blakecharlton.com/2014/02/february-2014-spellbreaker-progress-report/



I turned in a finished draft of Spellbreaker last May, and now I’m very happy to report that, after receiving some feedback from beta-readers, I’ve completed another revision. It’s a sleeker book now, having lost 20,000 words. Still it will be punching away in the heavyweight epic fantasy class with a total of 180,000 words.


It’s a darker book than its predecessors, more focused on endings and difficult choices. It’s also–I believe and hope–better written with deeper character exploration, more intuitive incorporation of the complex magical system, and more consistent plot progression. Of course, I’m counting on the readers to let me know how close to the mark I am on all these counts.



As to why the book is taking so long to get to the shelves…and to when we might expect it to come out… Sadly, like many authors, I have to answer with apologizes about events out of my control. Last year my editor at Tor left the company unexpectedly. The Spellwright Trilogy was orphaned; something that could have had dire consequences. But I was very fortunate that one of the company’s most senior editors, Patrick Neilson Hayden, was a fan of the series and picked me up. I’m thrilled to work with Patrick. Because he’s coming aboard on book three, he does need time to reread the first two books in the series before editing the third book. Hopefully I’ve made his job easier by landing a more polished manuscript on his desk. Even so, the absolute earliest I’d guess publication would be possible would be late 2014…and that might be too optimistic. When a publication schedule firms up, I’ll be sure to publish it here.


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The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Publication date: 2 Sep 2014

Plot:
According to an article by Sarah Shaffi in The Bookseller, the novel tells "the story of Holly Sykes, who runs away from home in 1984 and 60 years later can be found in the far west of Ireland, raising a granddaughter as the world’s climate collapses."
“In between, Holly is encountered as a barmaid in a Swiss resort by an undergraduate sociopath in 1991; has a child with a foreign correspondent covering the Iraq War in 2003; and, widowed, becomes the confidante of a self-obsessed author of fading powers and reputation during the present decade." Holly’s life is repeatedly intersected by a slow-motion war between a cult of predatory soul-decanters and a band of vigilantes. According to Sceptre: “Holly begins as an unwitting pawn in this war – but may prove to be its decisive weapon.”
The publisher said: “The arc of a life, a social seismograph, a fantasy of shadows and an inquiry into aging, mortality and survival, The Bone Clocks could only have been written by David Mitchell.”

Blurb for The Free by Brian Ruckley : Release Date: 14 Oct 2014

A warrior of legend. A warrior to be feared.

The famed Yulan is leader of The Free, the last remaining band of mercenaries in the Hommetic Kingdom. He and his comrades have earned a reputation of mythic proportions by selling their martial and magical talents to the highest bidder. Feared and revered, they were once seen as a threat to the Hommetic Kingdom's power - until they outlasted it in the course of a bloody rebellion.
With the oppressive monarch overthrown, The Free plan to finally lay down their weapons, hoping for a chance of peace at last. But their enemies will not let them rest just yet. For the final contract Yulan is offered is one he'll be unable to refuse - not when he learns the target is the very man responsible for the worst atrocity he has ever witnessed. It is an evil that Yulan failed to prevent - one that has haunted him ever since. And now is his last chance to right that wrong.
But as Yulan and his companions embark on their last journey, a potent mix of vengeance, love and loyalty is building to a storm. It is a storm so violent it is likely to destroy the last of the free companies. And only then will they discover the true price of freedom.
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