The Heart of the World is a land in strife. For fifty years the Holy Empire of Mann, an empire and religion born from a nihilistic urban cult, has been conquering nation after nation. Their leader, Ho
As the empire of Mann threatens the world with enslavement, only a single island nation continues to stand in its way—the Free Ports of the democras. For 10 years they have held their own, but now the
A time of reckoning has begun. For 10 years the Free Ports held their own against the despotic empire of Mann—but the empire is now poised to destroy them. The crucial fortress city of Bar-Khos is und
In Farlander, the first book of the Heart of the World series, readers met Ash, an aging master assassin of the famed order of Roshun, and his apprentice Nico, a boy who always managed to be in the wr