Bane of All Things (Paperback)

Leo Valiquette

ISBN 10: 1950301273 / ISBN 13: 9781950301270

Published by Inkshares, 2021

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Paperback. "A winner!"--Ed Greenwood, internationally-bestselling creator of The Forgotten Realms(R) In the Four Kingdoms, the Holy Clerisy preaches that the gods are dead, and prayer is the path to Hell. Anyone who defies doctrine is punished for heresy. But blind faith can damn a soul as surely as betrayal. Ryn Ruscroft, once sworn to serve as the Clerisy's loyal soldier, finds himself torn between conscience and duty one bitter winter's night. Those slain include his best friend, felled by his own hand. Josalind Aumbrae has been tormented all her life by the Voices and their visions--an affliction that could have her facing a witch's pyre. If only she could understand what they want. Banished to Dragon's Claw Abbey at the edge of the world, Ryn and Josalind discover a place built on more than penance and forgetting. What they find at the Claw will turn them into fugitives hunted by hellspawn, heretics, and Ryn's former commander. But more sinister forces have awoken--ancient things eager to settle old scores and find pawns among the outcast. When they cry for vengeance, the Living Sword must have a hand to wield it. A mortal it can reshape into the Earth Breaker, the Soul Taker, the Bane of All Things. With threads of Brian McClellan's Powder Mage trilogy and Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher series, Bane of All Things pits conscience against loyalty and faith against truth as a fugitive soldier and a condemned witch fight their fates as the pawns of warring gods. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bane of All Things (Paperback)
• Publisher: Inkshares
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1950301273
• ISBN 13: 9781950301270
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

"A winner!”—Ed Greenwood, internationally-bestselling creator of The Forgotten Realms®

In the Four Kingdoms, the Holy Clerisy preaches that the gods are dead, and prayer is the path to Hell. Anyone who defies doctrine is punished for heresy. But blind faith can damn a soul as surely as betrayal.

Ryn Ruscroft, once sworn to serve as the Clerisy’s loyal soldier, finds himself torn between conscience and duty one bitter winter’s night. Those slain include his best friend, felled by his own hand.

Josalind Aumbrae has been tormented all her life by the Voices and their visions—an affliction that could have her facing a witch’s pyre. If only she could understand what they want.

Banished to Dragon’s Claw Abbey at the edge of the world, Ryn and Josalind discover a place built on more than penance and forgetting. What they find at the Claw will turn them into fugitives hunted by hellspawn, heretics, and Ryn’s former commander.

But more sinister forces have awoken—ancient things eager to settle old scores and find pawns among the outcast. When they cry for vengeance, the Living Sword must have a hand to wield it. A mortal it can reshape into the Earth Breaker, the Soul Taker, the Bane of All Things.

About the Author

Leo Valiquette grew up in rural Ontario, Canada, but escaped to Tatooine, Middle Earth, and that barn in Charlotte’s Web by the age of eight. He trained to work in museums, before taking up the pen as a journalist and business writer. This love of the fantastical, the historical, and finding the root of a story fueled his need to create worlds of his own.