Shadowplay

Darkness has fallen on the lands of the sun as an army of misshapen fey spill out from beyond the Shadowline. At their head is Yasammez; dark creature of nightmare. A furtive bargain was struck at the gates of Southmarch and the castle was spared; but centuries of enmity will not be so easily appeased. Meanwhile Barrick; heir to Southmarch and cursed with madness; has crossed the Shadowline into the realm of his people's ancient enemy. There are stranger things than death here - stranger and older. Much further south; shadow is also falling over the reign of the Autarch; god-king; and supreme ruler. Quinnitan; junior wife; must flee the royal household or die; her greatest secret as yet hidden even from herself. Ancient blood flows through her veins and she will become a unique weapon in the fight against her greatest terror. And beyond the ken of all but a chosen few; the gods are awakening and the world is changing ...