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All the heroes are dead. Adelstrad's walls have withstood the northern barbarians and their dark gods for centuries, overseen by the tyrannical Nameless Barons. Not even the dead are safe from the corpse alchemists and their hunger for bodies in this land where life is cheap and only the strong survive. None dare ask where Viktor the Executioner came from or what sin got him sentenced to wear the black hood. Both the elites and the crime guilds stay clear of him and his menacing axe, but Viktor is no one’s slave. He merely bides his time until he can break his chains. Escape may come ...

It's always the knives you don't expect that carve the deepest wounds... Viktor was a fool to think that his witch problem would be dealt with so easily or that any straightforward solution would be effective in matters involving such insidious magic and such perfidious treachery. Now his challenges have multiplied. The dread howl of a white werewolf tears its way through the city and the beast seems to desire nothing more than the executioner's death. Adelstrad is teetering on the very edge and its citizens are actively looking for excuses to wipe one another out. The Baron is reacting in ...

CITY OF CHAINS: THE COMPLETE SAGA All the heroes are dead. In the monster-infested, blood-soaked city of Adelstrad, the weak are crushed, the wicked thrive, and even the dead aren’t allowed to rest. For centuries the Nameless Barons have ruled with iron fists and black alchemy, keeping the northern hordes and their dark gods at bay. But when a condemned executioner named Viktor takes up his axe, Adelstrad’s delicate balance of power begins to shatter. Once a criminal in service to tyranny, Viktor is offered one impossible chance at freedom — stop a plot that could destroy the city. ...

A bombing plot, a witch, and the opening chapters of a civil war... Viktor's managed to fill his pockets with some coin and take a single troublesome piece off his board but, of course, the Stone God hates a man that thinks himself lucky. It would seem that the wayward pawn was taking orders from the city's wealthiest and most megalomaniacal merchant, who doubtlessly doesn't consider the score settled. What's worse, the Church templars have heard of the use of rogue magic and decided to get themselves involved. Like the heads of a hydra, every problem Viktor deals with only seems to lead to...

Conraed has survived his first vicious skirmish against the Amir Garouz, but he's had a blade put into his stomach. Still, every fresh scar has a silver lining. He knows the name of the man who tried to have him killed: Resaad. Far from the rabble Conraed has fought so far, the man directing the Resistance will be a challenge. Lies travel through the Rim like vapour, and the blood is never far behind. Conraed may have stepped into a minefield, but he's more than keen to fight his way out of it.

Conraed's only reliable client has a death mark on her head—and his own partner might be the one that tries to collect on it. The Amir Garouz are making moves in the Rim, putting plans in motion for a violent uprising even as they come after Conraed himself. All in the name of their psychotic vine-god. Worst of all, Conraed's employer is keeping something from him. He's been cut from the job without explanation, all but bribed to stay off it. Daisca is moving pieces around on her own hidden board. Surrounded. Outnumbered. Outgunned. But Conraed is never outmatched...

(This volume presents the complete Slay the Sellsword arc, originally released in parts, now revised and collected as a single novel) The war ended. Then the sky caught fire. The Killenstorm poisoned the air and buried the city under a choking haze. Now every breath costs money—and Conraed survives by selling his sword in the slums of the Rim. A rusty blade. Half an oxygen canister. And a talent for killing the right people. His latest contract should have been simple. Kill a butcher who started a riot. Sell the corpse. Get paid. Instead, Conraed walks straight into a rising rebellion—...

War has come, within and without. Everything ends here. Betrayal has an acidic taste to it, and secrets aren't much more appetising. Viktor is no stranger to treachery, but this one came at the worst time. The siege has begun! The Nordlings have pushed the Adelstradians back to the walls of the city and General Lauter and his soldiers have been cut off, fighting for their lives to prevent the barbarians' naval force from beaching. Reality bends and shatters as things that were once men disembark black ships, bearing impossible weapons and screaming battle cries that make soldiers' eyes ...

(This volume presents the complete Garagos Isle arc, originally released in parts, now revised and collected as a single novel) He lost his body to dark magic. He will burn an island to get it back. Adrian was once a man—until forbidden sorcery twisted him into something monstrous. Trapped in the body of a spider and haunted by what he’s become, he speaks little of his past and nothing of the price he’s willing to pay to be human again. Geir is the Isles’ most skilled smuggler of cursed artefacts—and deathly afraid of spiders. Coin is the only thing that keeps her working with ...

The Nameless Baron is gravely displeased. Viktor had once heard that time healed all wounds. Whoever had come up with that saying had clearly never gotten into a physical altercation with a werewolf, but at least Adelstrad's least favourite executioner still has most of his limbs. That said, while his witch problems may have been solved, battle has finally joined in the Adelstradian countryside as Nordling warbands meet Adelstradian fighting men in the field and blood flows like wine. Viktor finds himself in a more precarious position than ever before, caught between the rapidly forming ...

When a man drowns in the Sunken Sea, he does not stay dead for long. Now something has infuriated the restless dead, and they lay siege to Garagos Isle. Adrian needs more time with Hektor Firstban. He needs the slaver to cure his transformation. Geir wants to take her money and run, but fleeing is rapidly becoming as dangerous as staying. Firstban is becoming erratic. Keeping secrets from them even as the storms rage overhead and the moans of living corpses fill the night.

Every step on Garagos Isle falls on the carcass of another secret. A tomb that should not exist, hidden in the forest and yet morbidly absent of a corpse. A goat horn, twisted with mutation and laid as some kind of offering. A half-mad slave girl, her body defaced with a symbol Adrian wished he didn't recognise. The shallow-men and their ravenous hunger for human flesh. Clawing at the edges of the island. Desperate for a way in. Hektor Firstban, hunting them through the jungle like animals. Intent on forcing them into more of his sick games. He wants something from them. Something dark...

(From the author of the indie standout City of Chains series!) His body was stolen from him. He’ll do anything to get it back. Dark magic warped Adrian into a spider. He never speaks of how it happened, nor the terrible cost of surviving it. All that matters now is the desperate journey into the Sunken Sea. He will reclaim his humanity. Geir is the Sea's most adept smuggler of cursed artefacts, but she has a fear that even her cold professionalism can’t mask: spiders. She’s not sure how long her nerves will hold as she becomes entangled with her newest—and most unsettling—client. ...

(The sequel to the smash-hit City of Chains series!) After the war ended, Conraed's people were set to enter a golden age. Then the Killenstorm scorched the skies with arcane horror and turned the air to poison. It destroyed everything Conraed had, forcing him to take up the life of the mercenary. He has only a rusty sword, half an oxygen canister and precious few moral scruples. In the brutal slums, that's just enough for a man to carve out his fortune. Tonight's job sounded easy. Kill a butcher who sparked a riot and sell his corpse. Then Conraed crossed some very dangerous zealots. A ...