Lines of Blood

Balanced Blades Cut Both Ways. Commander Aviry Brooke found this out the hard way as the Starbond's Endstorm breaks at last, his doom swept up by the Veins' most vital hunt. While the skies falter and the fates spiral out of control, Brooke must buckle down and lead men in a feckless, seemingly hopeless war. To know the pathless path is one thing but to tread its unclear, trap-laden course proves something else entirely. Save one truth: the deepest sleep does not take sides. And Evil comes in the cleverest guise of all. As freeborn and demons clash across the Main, as Siphons wreck havoc on Earth, as the wizard, Gjen leads the Vein fellowship on their damned and uncertain Augury Quest, and worlds tear themselves asunder in the fallout, Brooke learns to his despair, the most effective weapon is a poison of the mind. The scale is rigged... and Time is running out. Spectacular settings, magnificent creatures, rousing action and harrowing twists define Balance: Book Three of the Lines of Blood grit-paved saga