Much like his knight-lord father, Edwin cares little for pretty words of poetry and song. Duty, loyalty, discipline: these are the only words that truly matter to him as a knight in service of the Brotherhood . . . that is, until he meets Evelina. Beautiful beyond measure, she’s also a Gravewalker, a witch able to make use of the emotional residues left behind in cemeteries and burial grounds to power her magics. Displeased with this alliance, Edwin’s father declares all-out war against her kind, resulting in Evelina’s death, Edwin’s imprisonment, and the disappearance of Mela, their precocious young daughter. Years later, Mela, now the most powerful Gravewalker in her clan, marshals her sisters to abandon their peaceful ways as caretakers of the dead and instead raise an army of undead warriors against the knight-lord and his men, threatening utter ruin for all. Freed by an irascible bard with her own dubious intentions, Edwin is now the only one who can put a stop to his daughter’s quest for vengeance. To save everything he knows, he must become more than just a knight . . . He must become the Knight Proper.

When the prince of Riverstone is assassinated, and his twin brother rises to power under a cloud of suspicion, all of Siamard is thrown into jeopardy. As the res of revolution grow, and inhuman threats from the old world resurface, Jacobus, the rightful heir to his fathers throne is found, far more alive than his brother would like...Far from the kingdom that has all but forgotten him, the monarch of Riverstone must throw o the chains of slavery, gather allies to his cause, and take back his birthright before all of Siamard is crushed in the monstrous claws of the ancient and terrible Rhone. With the aid of a fellow slave, a mysterious mystic, and an alluring princess, he must journey across the world and uncover the plot against him, lest all the world fall into evil and madness.

Follow the adventures of the Orthelios Twins as they reunite after years of estrangement to face a long dormant evil risen to claim the world as her own.

"Campbell sheds light on Tudor political and artistic culture and the court's response to Renaissance aesthetic ideals. He challenges the predominantly text-driven histories of the period and offers a fresh perspective on the life of Henry VIII"--OCLC