Heart of the King

It began with a vial of blood, a curse, and a quest to a haunted land. Now, Khirro's Journey comes to its end. A king's spirit. A coward's heart. Together, a kingdom's last hope. Sheyndust, the Archon, desires to be Necromancer and wield dark magic the likes of which the world has never seen. For years, her deadly plan has fallen into place piece by piece, treachery by treachery, death by death. With her enemies on their knees and an army of the dead at her command, nothing stands between her and the ultimate power for which she thirsts. Nothing except a farmer and a dead king. The curse that bound Khirro to his task was broken when the blood of the king spilled, but the king's spirit--a tyger of vengeful flame--burns bright within him. It pushes Khirro through hostile lands to return to his home. It pushes him to be more than he ever thought he could be despite the doubt and fear devouring him. It pushes him in a race against time to save the kingdom, a race he is bound to lose. As the final pieces of the Archon's plot fall into place, and her power and army grow, it looks certain that all will be lost. Unless a coward can look inside himself and find the heart of a king.