The Gauntlet and the Broken Chain

The Ferron Empire has been blighted by the rotstorm for 312 years, and the Stormguard maintains their vigil on the Stormwall to defend the Undal Protectorate. Behind the storm front, something is stirring, kindling the embers of an ancient conflict and a plan to kill a god. Floré returns to the Undal Protectorate to find it blighted by a Claw Winter, and she must raise her gauntlet one final time to save her daughter and her people. Will steel alone be enough to take down the gods?

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 04 January 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

For three hundred and twelve years, the rotstorm has ravaged the ruins of the Ferron Empire, born of an unholy war between gods. It scours the land with acid mists and deadly lightning, spawning twisted monstrosities from its nightmarish depths. On the Stormwall, the men and women of the Stormguard maintain their vigil, their eyes sharp, their blades sharper, defending the Undal Protectorate from the worst of the rotstorm's corruption. But behind the storm front, something stirs, kindling the embers of an ancient conflict and a plan to kill a god. Will the Stormguard's steel be enough to meet the coming tempest?

Floré returns to the Undal Protectorate to find it blighted by the deadly ice and bitter winds of a Claw Winter. Her people are dying, and she is sworn to save them, but she can think only of her daughter Marta, slowly succumbing to her skein-sickness, trapped somewhere in the far, far north. Now, Tullen One-Eye, the man they call the 'Deathless,' has been freed and roams the land once more. There are rumors that the great god-wolf Lothal hunts again. And deep in Orubors Wood, the god-bear Anshuka stirs from her slumber.

Floré must raise her gauntlet one final time if she is to save her daughter and her people. But will steel alone be enough to take down the gods?

Weight: 288g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800244184