Sojourner

Prince Reigh assumed his years of confronting covert brotherhoods and godly sorcery were over. For fourteen years the Kingdom of Maldobar has known peace, ever since the Goddess of Mischief was defeated. That calm ends when Arlan the Kinslayer, a criminal lord, calls in an old debt. Reluctantly, Reigh sharpens his blades and sails away from home.

Heading for the Southern Kingdoms, Reigh travels with longtime companions and newly met allies. Their goal is an artifact whose power could destroy the world, and which could break open the realm where the gods dwell if misused. Captain Malina Skyhart commands the ship through waters crowded with violent raiders, and the voyage is also threatened by hidden passengers who may prove more dangerous than any pirate. Dragonriders must face legendary sea creatures along the way.

Arlan warns that a sorceress has already struck the ancient library where the artifact was concealed, and that no one inside survived. Reigh fears that the companions may have arrived too late.

Clarke has never left the Compendium Library. Hidden in the far corner of Nar'Haleen, he and the other orphans raised by its scholars never imagined that the centuries-old conflict among the Southern Kingdoms could touch them. When it finally does, Clarke wakes to find his home destroyed. His memory is almost uncannily exact, at times to the point of overwhelming him, and it is the only guide he has as he tries to survive a dangerous land. Otherwise he risks being swallowed by a war he has known only from old books.