Pendragon Cycle

Arthur is king, but treachery runs rampant throughout the beleaguered Isle of the Mighty. Darkest evil descends upon Britain's shore in many guises. Fragile alliances fray and tear, threatening all that the noble liege has won with his wisdom and his blood. His most trusted counselor—the warrior, bard, and kingmaker whom legend will name Merlin—is himself to be tested on a mystical journey back through his own extraordinary past. In a black time of plague and pestilence, it is Arthur who must stand alone against a great and terrible adversary, for only in this way can he truly win immortality—and the name treasured above all others: Pendragon.

Drought, plague and war have left the Isle of Mighty battered and the beloved King Arthur grievously injured. But astonishingly, the High King lives, his wounds healed by a sacred and secret relic: the Holy Grail. Now, in this time of rampant disease and death, the great king wants to share the Grail's curative powers with all who require it. But with the Grail, evil has entered the royal court, in the guise of a beautiful maiden who seduces the King's most loyal champion. Confounding both Arthur and the sage Merlin, evil abducts the Grail, along with Arthur's beloved Queen, and carries them off into the dark unknown. Now Arthur faces the greatest challenge of his sovereignty: to recover his lost treasures. It will lead him through realms of magic and the undead, on a trail that winds inexorably toward a grim confrontation with his most foul nemesis-and his destiny.