The Lord of Castle Black

The missing heir to the imperial throne is found as the swashbuckling epic fantasy begun in The Paths of the Dead continues.

The Interregnum is over. To everyone's astonishment, Zerika, a very young Phoenix, has coolly emerged from the Paths of the Dead, carrying with her the Orb, which everyone had thought was lost in Adron's Disaster. The Orb is the heart of the Dragaeran Empire, the source of all its magic—and the infallible sign that Zerika is the new Empress.

But not everyone is happy to hear the news. It’s been 250 years since Adron's Disaster, and power vacuums never stay that way for long. Kâna, a Dragonlord, has been expanding his holdings and now controls almost half the area that was once the Empire.

One of those opposing Kâna is a young Dragonlord named Morrolan—who was raised among Easterners, unaware of his lineage. Now that he knows that he’s a high-ranking Dragonlord, he means to act like one. And from Sethra Lavode, Morrolan has received a gift of immense significance and power: black wand, a magical artifact in the form of a sword.