Eleven Kingdoms

A fabulous epic of deadly assassins, desperate journeys, and the desire for vengeance. To escape his master, Slave sells his soul, precipitating events with world-shattering consequences...A fabulous epic of deadly assassins, desperate journeys and the desire for vengeance...Slave has been owned by Sondelle, and kept prisoner, since he was a child. Finally, escaping through the catacombs, Slave is almost killed by a revenant warrior spirit. He gains his freedom only by swearing fealty to this dangerous creature. Befriended by Ileki, Slave begins to learn about the world outside. However, in a fight to the death, Slave discovers that the revenant warrior has given him a 'blessing', a form of berserk rage that makes him virtually unbeatable in combat, but also makes him lethal to anyone in the immediate area, friends and foes alike. When he is left alone, Slave heads for Ileki's home city to make amends and seek help. Also, heading for the same city are a number of other desperate runaways...Meanwhile, an evil spirit imprisoned for centuries beneath a city finds its freedom...and seeks its revenge.

Slave has escaped imprisonment, but his master still hunts him, while an evil spirit owns his soul...'If it wants her dead, we should keep her alive...'With Myrrhini taken, Slave heads off in pursuit through the wilderness. Keshik, meanwhile, has problems of his own to deal with, problems that could see him executed. The Revenants, now free, are moving through the world, following their own plans, seeking their own goals. Goals that involve the Scarred Man and the woman with him. But which, Scarred Man? And, who is the woman they seek? What do they want with her? Far away in her hidden city, the Blindfolded Queen is manipulating events to her own ends...who or what will pay the price? A fabulous epic of deadly assassins, desperate journeys and the desire for vengeance...

The third book in this fabulous epic of deadly assassins, desperate journeys and the desire for vengeance ... The Six Wastes were governed by the ancients ... the Seventh Waste is the heart of men, uncontrolled and unknown. The actions of the Revenants are sending shock waves through all the Eleven kingdoms. No matter what happens, the impact of their release will be felt for generations. Slave and Keshik leave the Hidden City of the Blindfolded Queen together with Maida and Myrrhini to seek out the Revenants for their own reasons and with their own purposes. Myrrhini, troubled by her visions into the Mertian 'world of could be', is struggling to come to terms with her burgeoning power and complex relationship with Slave, while Keshik comes face to face with the reason for his exile from the tulugma. Slave continues to wrestle with the twin 'blessings' of the Scaren Revenant as he seeks the peace promised him by Myrrhini.