Book one of the ARTEFACTS OF POWER series

The Assassin's Guild returns to Krondor, seemingly killing without purpose or pattern. Squire James and newly-commissioned Lieutenant William ConDoin are plummeted into a dark world of politics and murder as they try to prevent all-out war.

It is nine years on from the aftermath of Sethanon. There has been peace awhile and it's been needed. But news is feeding through to the people of the Kingdom of the Isles that deadly forces are stirring on the horizon. At the root of all this unrest lie the machinations of a group of magicians.

'With The Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal' THE NEW YORK TIMES

Rand al'Thor has just cleansed Saidin, an unimaginable feat that is the salvation of every man who can channel, but has the Dragon Reborn spelt his own doom with his actions? Meanwhile Perrin chases after the Aiel with the Prophet's mad army hoping to rescue Faile.

'With The Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal' THE NEW YORK TIMES