About The Sunsurge Quartet
Set in Urte, the same world as The Moontide Quartet, this new series picks up the tale with a new group of central characters, facing new challenges in parts of Urte we've not previously spent time.
In Pallas, the disaster of the Third Crusade mean that regime change is in the air: the masters of political duplicity, manipulation and murder take to the stage, and a naive young woman is thrust into the center of the turmoil. Can she and those she cares for survive?
In the East, a peace-loving sultan faces the most deadly test of his reign, and faces treachery at the highest levels, as the call for a war of revenge against the West grows impossible to ignore.
In a hidden mountain kingdom, the world's problems are brought into sharp focus when an old heretical form of magic re-emerges, one that may threaten life itself.
And behind everything stand the Masked Cabal, a secret society formed by an amoral genius, whose goal seems to be the destruction of civilization itself.
Return to Urte, a world at war, where magic and intrigue are the weapons of choice.
Titles in The Sunsurge Quartet
Lyra, Queen of Rondelmar, has fought enemies without and within, dealt with grief and loss, embraced forbidden magic, found her father and borne a child - and still it isn't enough. Her enemies are on the march and the Rondian Empire is collapsing.
But a more dangerous adversary is out there . . . and he is winning.
Ervyn Naxius, amoral genius, has unleashed war on two continents and now laughing as the world of Urte tears itself apart. Kings and priests dance to his tune and his daemonic followers are spreading through the lands, but still he isn't satisfied. His ultimate goal - absolute control of all life - is finally within his reach . . .
Are these the Last Days, when the daemons rise up to claim the world?
From snowbound Mollachia to the beleaguered walls of Norostein, from the poisonous court of the new sultan to the deadly intrigues of Pallas, the omens are clear. Only Lyra and a handful of other heretical dwymancers have grasped the true danger - and they won't give up until every last hope is buried . . .
Reviews for Mother of Daemons
Summer is gone, and the world is turning to ice
The Rondian Empress Lyra has lost her husband, her army is defeated and the deadly Masked Cabal have seized the Holy City. Her allies have abandoned her, her empire is spiralling into chaos – and her only weapon is a forbidden magic she fears to use. She can’t survive alone – but who can she still trust?
The Holy War is at the gates of the Empire
The Eastern conqueror Sultan Rashid is victorious on the battlefield, but now he faces an enemy more deadly than Rondian knights: the winter. Unless he captures a major city to shelter his huge armies, his plans to overthrow the West face ruin in the snow. But standing between his men and safety is the remnants of a defeated army, led by a general who knows all about fighting for survival.
In a Sunsurge winter, only hearts of ice will endure
There are no easy options left. Lyra and her fellow dwymancers must master their deadly magic, whatever the cost. Even those who believe themselves to be fighting for good must grasp the reins of power with cold-hearted determination and use even the most terrible powers, if they are to stop the world from falling apart . . . for ever.
THE UNTHINKABLE HAS HAPPENED.
With the Leviathan Bridge critically damaged and its towers unable to control the skies between Yuros and Antiopia, the East has invaded the West. A vast windfleet, constructed in secret, is winging across the Pontic Sea.
The holy Shihad has begun.
The Rondian Empire is divided and weak, in no position to mount a defence. The young Empress Lyra has barely survived a coup, triggered by a masked cabal whose members still remain concealed in the highest echelons of her court. Only her secret affinity to a heretical power saved her – but it’s also her most dangerous weakness.
Time is running out.
As empires clash, lives are torn apart and long-held beliefs are overthrown by circumstance and desperation. Two princes will soon clash in the skies above Yuros – and the fate of nations will ride on their skills.
And all the time, in the background, are the Masks, who are plotting a whole new world – no matter who wins the war.
Reviews for Prince of the Spear
Empress of the Fall is Book One of The Sunsurge Quartet. Return to Urte, the world of the Moontide Quartet for another epic journey into darkness.
THE EMPEROR IS DEAD – LONG LIVE THE EMPRESS!
With Emperor Constant and his court destroyed, the West is on the brink of devastating civil war. The Rondian Empire’s only hope for stability is a young convent girl who knows nothing of the wider world – but she is hiding a deadly secret.
The imperial throne is not the only one in jeopardy. In the East, fresh from his overwhelming triumph over the third Rondian Crusade, the peace-making Sultan Salim is facing demands for an impossible holy war of vengeance against the West, that are dividing his court and kingdom.
And lurking in the darkness, orchestrating both power struggles, is the Puppeteer, a masked mage with a diabolic power at his fingertips, whose lust for domination takes Urte to the brink of cataclysm . . .