Bøger af D P Prior

When students go missing in the university town of Aberystwyth, Harry Chesterton's investigation leads him to an ancient monastery on the hill.

Deacon Shader is a child out of time, removed as a baby from his Ancient world parents and raised on the Isle of Maranore.On his seventh birthday, the philosopher Aristodeus arrives to commence the boy's training with sword and mind. Nothing short of excellence will suffice, if Deacon is to fulfill his destiny and avert the Unweaving of all things.But as Aristodeus pushes him to the limits, reavers are spotted approaching the coast, and a cloud of horror descends upon the village.For these are no ordinary pirates. They sail under the Impaled Man, the grisly flag of Verusia, land of the undead and realm of the Lich Lord.

For centuries, no one had heard a peep out of Verusia, the dark stain at the heart of the Templum's empire. But when a messenger arrives in the Holy City of Aeterna, bearing news that the fortresses along the border have mysteriously been abandoned, and the three-hundred men of Trajinot's garrison have been impaled outside the city walls, word is, the Lich Lord is on the move again.As an army of the dead waits within the shadow-black trees of the Schwarzwald, the Templum gathers its troops for war.Captain Deacon Shader leads the Seventh Horse, a heavy cavalry troop now deemed obsolete. One charge, one chance is their motto. Time it right, and the tide of any battle can be turned; get it wrong, and it could all be over.When the two forces face off outside the walls of Trajinot, it is not just the hordes of undeath the Templum must fight. Intangible terror poisons the air, driving seasoned warriors to panic.Only the Elect knights of the Seventh Horse have the discipline to stand their ground; yet facing a fear doesn't mean it will do you no harm, and for Shader, there are worse things than wounds of the flesh.

Having worked out his penance and resettled his people in the citadel of Arnoch, the Nameless Dwarf decides to start a new life in the up-and-coming town of Brink.Seven years later, he has everything a dwarf could possibly wish for—a gym, a beer hall, and a bawdy house across the road.Then a blood-stained dwarf staggers into town with a message of doom:Arnoch has sunk beneath the waves, its last defense against the attack of a five-headed dragon.The one slender hope remaining to the dwarves lies in their distant past: the dwarf lords, who had been created for perils such as this. But for centuries, they have been in exile on Thanatos, a death world likely to change even the greatest of heroes.With time running out for Arnoch, Nameless must find the dwarf lords and persuade them to come home.But before that, he first has to survive them.