Kinsman Chronicles

The gods are angry. Volcanic eruptions, sinkholes, ground shakers--everything points to their unhappiness. At least that is what the king of Armania believes. His son, Prince Wilek, thinks his father's superstitions are nonsense, though he remains the ever dutiful First Arm of Armania. When a messenger arrives and claims that the town of Farway has been swallowed by the earth, the king sends Wilek to investigate. But what Wilek discovers is more cataclysmic than one lost city. Even as the ground shifts beneath his feet, Wilek sets out on a desperate journey to save his people and his world. But can he do it before the entire land crumbles?

With Prince Wilek searching Armenia for a murderer, his brother Prince Trevn is pulled deeper into the politics of who will be Heir as King Echad's health declines. In his studies with a local priest, Trevn encounters a book that speaks not of the gods he knows, but of one true God. If this book is accurate, have all their sacrifices been in vain?

With the Five Realms on the brink of destruction, the people of Armania desperately scramble to find a safe haven. The realm is divided on what should be done. Wilek and Trevn join those who are preparing for a seaward evacuation, but the king stands in their way. Wilek must battle against his own father to try to save his people--before it's too late.

Jill Williamson's Fantasy Saga Continues! In the second volume of Jill Williamson's Kinsman Chronicles, a remnant has escaped the destruction of the Five Realms and now lives on several hundred ships adrift at sea. As a flock, they sail north into the unknown in hopes of finding land that might become their new home. As the king's illness worsens, Sâr Wilek takes authority over the expedition and struggles to rule the disjointed people, while assassination attempts, vicious serpents, and dark magic endanger his life. One prophecy has come to pass, but another looms dauntingly in the future. Who is this Deliverer? And if the Magonians have him, what might that mean for the realm of Armania?

After the destruction of the Five Realms, the remnant that escaped by sea searches for a new home. As the king's health worsens, Sâr Wilek assumes command and struggles to rule the disjointed people while Prince Trevn learns to captain a ship. Unbeknownst to the princes, their enemies are also on board, hiding in plain sight.

When a new Magonian plot to conceive their Deliverer becomes known, Prince Wilek takes drastic--and potentially disastrous--measures to ensure the child will not fall into the wrong hands. Meanwhile, the fleet of the Five Realms is plagued by hunger, disease, and pirate attacks.

The fleet finally discovers land, but a new and unanticipated supernatural ability embroils the Armanian people in a bitter conflict. Wilek establishes a capitol city, and puts Trevn in charge of an exploratory expedition. In the west, the Magonians prepare for the prophesied uprising of the Deliverer, who they believe will make Magonia the ruler of nations.

One battle is over, but the war has just begun. They escaped the Five Realms and have found a home, but peace is much harder to find. The aftermath of the Battle of Sarikar should have been a time to mourn those lost in the slaughter. The enemies of Armania are many, however, and when one steps back to regroup, another surges forward in attack. While the remnant must take responsibility for the evil they brought to Er'Rets, it would seem that something just as dark already existed in this new world. The growing struggle between Armania and Barthel Rogedoth is but a pale reflection of a far more dangerous battle for the souls of humanity. And so begins this awe-inspiring conclusion to Jill Williamson's Kinsman Chronicles. The Hadar family and their allies prepare to make one final stand in the name of Arman. There shall be war--in Er'Rets and in the Veil--to vanquish evil or be ruled by darkness.

One battle is over, but the war has just begun. Following the ambush that destroyed the veteran armies of Armania and Sarikar, Prince Trevn travels back to Armanguard to help defend his people from future attacks. With a sorcerer trying to usurp the throne and giants threatening to enslave them, the struggle to unite the people will be a difficult task.

Grayson has become the king's spy, traveling the new land to determine the strengths and weaknesses of Armania's enemies. On one such mission, he uncovers a seedbed of destruction that is responsible for the infighting between the giant tribes and the oppression of the Puru people. He does what he can to help, but his actions are considered an act of war. Meanwhile, Chieftess Charlon has found a way to make magic in this new land, and as evenroot sources diminish, Barthel Rogedoth and Empress Jazlyn will do anything to learn her secret. In her captivity, Onika the prophetess stumbles onto a new ability of the voicing magic. She returns to Armanguard to train warriors to enter the Veil and fight an unseen evil that has been subjugating the souls of humanity for generations.

Prepare as The Kinsman Chronicles reaches its powerful conclusion! As the last of the old evenroot is used up, desperate shadir riot in the Veil. Hungry for any way to keep their hold on humanity, they unite under Shanek DanSâr, an unlikely despot whose erratic rule threatens to subjugate even his own allies. As war comes to Er'Rets, treaties are broken and new alliances formed. Trevn leads the battle on the ground while Onika and her warriors hold the line in the Veil in a final stand against darkness that will forever determine the fate of the Kinsman people.