The first in the powerful (SFFWorld.com) New York Times bestselling fantasy series.
A future that will alter not only the Realm but the world..
But one truth overpowers all the rest: Vaelin Al Sorna is destined for a future he has yet to comprehend.
Even his cherished memories of his mother are soon challenged by what he learns within the Order.
Vaelin\'s father was Battle Lord to King Janus, ruler of the Unified Realm--and Vaelin\'s rage at being deprived of his birthright knows no bounds.
He has no family now save the Order.
Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order to be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate and dangerous life of a warrior of the Faith.
The first in the powerful (SFFWorld.com) New York Times bestselling fantasy series