**Do you remember the last time a book gave you the chills? *The Dead Path* is the ghost story weve been waiting for.** A haunting vision in the woods sets off a series of tragic events, leaving Nicholas Close lost amid visions of ghosts trapped in their harrowing, final moments. These uniquely ter
The Paths of the Dead
β Scribed by Steven Brust
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates;Tor
- Year
- 2011;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1429997338
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The long-awaited sequel to The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After
Two hundred years after Adron's Disaster, in which Dragaera City was accidentally reduced to an ocean of chaos by an experiment in wizardry gone wrong, the Empire isn't what it used to be. Deprived at a single blow of their Emperor, of the Orb that is the focus of the Empire's power, of their capital city with its Impe-rial bureaucracy, and of a great many of their late fellow citizens, the surviving Dragaerans have been limping through a long Interregnum, bereft even of the simple magic and sorcery they were accustomed to use in everyday life.
Now the descendants and successors of the great ad-venturers Khaavren, Pel, Aerich, and Tazendra are growing up in this seemingly diminished world, con-vinced, like their elders, that the age of adventures is over and nothing interesting will ever happen to them. They are, of course, wrong . . . .
For even deprived of...
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