THE LAST KING OF EMBERWYLD : THE FINAL DAWN Chapter 2: The Call from Beyond The mountains were colder than Kaelen remembered. He stood at the base of the pass, the wind whipping his cloak, the snow stinging his face. The Duskblade was warm at his hip. The key was hot in his pocket. The … Read more
THE LAST KING OF EMBERWYLD : THE FINAL DAWN Chapter 1: The Whisper in the Dark Ten years had passed since Kaelen closed the door. Ten years of peace. Ten years of growth. Ten years of watching the world heal from the wounds of the Blight. The fields were golden with grain. The forests were … Read more
THE LAST KING OF EMBERWYLD : THE AWAKENING DARK Chapter 10: The Beginning — Book Two Finale The field stretched to the horizon. Green and gold, dotted with wildflowers, bordered by a forest of silver trees whose leaves shimmered in the sunlight. The sky was impossibly blue, the clouds impossibly white, the sun impossibly warm. … Read more
THE LAST KING OF EMBERWYLD : THE AWAKENING DARK Chapter 9: The Rest The nothing was no longer nothing. It had become a place—a real place, with grass and trees and sky. The grass was green, soft beneath Kaelen’s feet. The trees were tall, their leaves rustling in a wind that was warm and gentle. … Read more
THE LAST KING OF EMBERWYLD : THE AWAKENING DARK Chapter 8: The Return The journey back was different from the journey there. Kaelen had expected more darkness, more cold, more hunger. But the nothing had changed. The darkness was lighter, softer, almost gentle. The cold was warmer, almost warm. The silence was filled with whispers—not … Read more
THE LAST KING OF EMBERWYLD : THE AWAKENING DARK Chapter 7: The New Nightmare The woman in white stood in the nothing, her dark hair floating, her pale dress glowing. She was beautiful—more beautiful than Elena, more beautiful than anyone Kaelen had ever seen. Her face was perfect, her body was perfect, her smile was … Read more
THE LAST KING OF EMBERWYLD : THE AWAKENING DARK Chapter 6: The New Guardian The nothing did not fade. It changed—slowly, subtly, like ice melting in spring. The darkness grew thinner, lighter, softer. The cold grew warmer. The silence grew filled with whispers—not the hungry whispers of the nightmare, but something else. Something almost like … Read more
THE LAST KING OF EMBERWYLD : THE AWAKENING DARK Chapter 5: The First King’s Awakening The eyes that opened inside the sphere were not human. They were black—blacker than the void, blacker than the door, blacker than anything Kaelen had ever seen. They were the eyes of something that had been sleeping for a thousand … Read more
THE LAST KING OF EMBERWYLD : THE AWAKENING DARK Chapter 4: The Heart of the Nightmare The nothing became something. Kaelen felt it happening—a shift, a change, a transformation. The absence of everything gave way to the presence of something. Something vast. Something ancient. Something hungry. He was no longer standing in the void. He … Read more
THE LAST KING OF EMBERWYLD : THE AWAKENING DARK Chapter 3: The Failing Seal The crack in the door pulsed. It was not a passive thing—not a simple fissure in stone. It breathed. It beat. It hungered. Each pulse sent a wave of darkness across the valley, swallowing the light, swallowing the warmth, swallowing the … Read more
