The Moon Tower

Cephas Bishop, distinguished general, has fallen to lowly assassin in the time it took to read a letter. His wife abducted, by the emperor he served loyally for twenty years, Cephas is tasked with killing the master of their neighboring kingdom to gain her freedom.Rosie Smios, masterful cynic and loyal soldier, joins Cephas in his journey to the unknown, unaware that they will find a world wholly unlike what the church claims awaits them. She never expected the end of this campaign to be the beginning of her life.Adina Adair, archer extraordinaire, devout disciple of Emperor Justinian and the Katovian church and adept consumer of liquor, accompanies his life-long friend with fervor. Excited to eliminate the vampires and their ilk, he struggles to realize the truth of Voldenmyre is much more complicated than the black and white picture his church taught him.Deiter Beaumont, renowned warrior and grand optimist, tags along for the glory of the fight and finds naught but madness waiting for him. Deiter thrives in the thick of battle, but the magic of The Moon Tower sets his mind reeling while his friends look on helpless.Rosie, Adina and Deiter join Cephas on a mission across The Great Divide, a chasm separating their homeland Katovia from Voldenmyre, where the Vampire King Cadoc presides, as if by divine decree. A heavily fortified city-state in control of the only bridge across this fissure is but the first and simplest obstacle as they infiltrate this land of myth and realize too late they were never meant to succeed.If they were afraid to face the Vampire King, then when they learn the truth of what awaits them, no amount of confidence or training will save them from their own terror.

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