The Gryphon and The Storm of Many Crowns
(2027)(The tenth book in the Rage of Lions series)
A novel by Matt Barron
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A storm of blood and fire engulfs the land.
The road to Denay is open; the war trail of the Western Reach and the Wind Rising fey leads to the capital's ancient gates. The curse that would give the Silent Hand control of the Grand Kingdom for another thousand years has been stopped. But before Archduchess Amelia can send her lions and her gryphons on their final hunt for the sickly royal eagle, they must divert to the lair of one other beast—Sanguine, secret leader of the Inquisition, the poisonous toad squatting in his wretched pit.
Yet, as Knight Commander Prentice leads the Reach armies to destroy the Silent Hand's secret base of power, behind them a final tempest rises over the heartlands. Seduced by the new Queen Karoline, the Forberest Compact at last marches to war, while the True Sons of Mother Church have broken away, to end the age of kings and put the ecclesiarches upon the throne instead. Enemies to each other, neither faction will let the Lioness from the west, nor her heretic Gryphon general, take the capital for themselves. And behind his walls the Usurper Daven Marcus, the kingslayer king, last Eagle of Denay, clutches the Twinned Thrones in his vile talons, determined to rend the Grand Kingdom to ribbons before he gives up power.
From the greatest to the least, the entire Grand Kingdom will be swept up in the deluge. All must fight in the coming battle; all must swim or drown as the tide of judgement that has been held back for a thousand years at last engulfs the land.
Genre: Inspirational
A storm of blood and fire engulfs the land.
The road to Denay is open; the war trail of the Western Reach and the Wind Rising fey leads to the capital's ancient gates. The curse that would give the Silent Hand control of the Grand Kingdom for another thousand years has been stopped. But before Archduchess Amelia can send her lions and her gryphons on their final hunt for the sickly royal eagle, they must divert to the lair of one other beast—Sanguine, secret leader of the Inquisition, the poisonous toad squatting in his wretched pit.
Yet, as Knight Commander Prentice leads the Reach armies to destroy the Silent Hand's secret base of power, behind them a final tempest rises over the heartlands. Seduced by the new Queen Karoline, the Forberest Compact at last marches to war, while the True Sons of Mother Church have broken away, to end the age of kings and put the ecclesiarches upon the throne instead. Enemies to each other, neither faction will let the Lioness from the west, nor her heretic Gryphon general, take the capital for themselves. And behind his walls the Usurper Daven Marcus, the kingslayer king, last Eagle of Denay, clutches the Twinned Thrones in his vile talons, determined to rend the Grand Kingdom to ribbons before he gives up power.
From the greatest to the least, the entire Grand Kingdom will be swept up in the deluge. All must fight in the coming battle; all must swim or drown as the tide of judgement that has been held back for a thousand years at last engulfs the land.
Genre: Inspirational