The City of the Damned
(2026)(Book 11 in the Kael Brightsun Chronicles series)
A novel by Zackery Arbela
Kael Brightsun crossed fire and darkness to rescue the woman he loves. But escaping Summitari may prove deadlier than entering it.
With Thyra finally freed from captivity, Kael leads the battered survivors of the Broken Horn north through lands ruined by war, hunted by savage ijali warbands and the shadowy servants of the Dark Fire. The company is wounded, exhausted, and burdened with rescued women who cannot outrun the enemy closing behind them. Yet freedom brings its own wounds. Captivity has changed Thyra, and the life Kael fought to reclaim may no longer be the one he remembers.
When the Broken Horn stumbles upon a forgotten city hidden deep in the hills, refuge seems finally within reach. But the ancient ruins are haunted by the restless dead—ghosts of a civilization destroyed long ago, trapped by hatred, memory, and unfinished vengeance. As Kael uncovers the terrible truth behind the city’s fall, he begins to understand that kingdoms are not conquered only by enemies from without, but by divisions from within.
Then the hunters arrive.
Outnumbered, surrounded, and trapped inside a city of ghosts, Kael and the Broken Horn must make their final stand against an army determined to wipe them from the world. But in the City of the Damned, the dead still remember war.
And vengeance never truly dies.
Genre: Fantasy
With Thyra finally freed from captivity, Kael leads the battered survivors of the Broken Horn north through lands ruined by war, hunted by savage ijali warbands and the shadowy servants of the Dark Fire. The company is wounded, exhausted, and burdened with rescued women who cannot outrun the enemy closing behind them. Yet freedom brings its own wounds. Captivity has changed Thyra, and the life Kael fought to reclaim may no longer be the one he remembers.
When the Broken Horn stumbles upon a forgotten city hidden deep in the hills, refuge seems finally within reach. But the ancient ruins are haunted by the restless dead—ghosts of a civilization destroyed long ago, trapped by hatred, memory, and unfinished vengeance. As Kael uncovers the terrible truth behind the city’s fall, he begins to understand that kingdoms are not conquered only by enemies from without, but by divisions from within.
Then the hunters arrive.
Outnumbered, surrounded, and trapped inside a city of ghosts, Kael and the Broken Horn must make their final stand against an army determined to wipe them from the world. But in the City of the Damned, the dead still remember war.
And vengeance never truly dies.
Genre: Fantasy
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