The Empire’s Ruin
by Brian Staveley

The long-awaited return to the world of the Unhewn Throne by author Brian Staveley, the start of a bold new epic fantasy series.

The Annurian Empire is disintegrating. The ranks of the Kettral, elite warriors for the emperor, have been decimated from within, and the kenta gates, once granting instantaneous travel across the vast lands of the empire, are closed.

In order to save the empire, one of the surviving Kettral, Gwenna Sharpe, must voyage beyond the edge of the known world through a land that warps and poisons all living things to find the nesting ground of the giant war hawks.

But time is running out. Deep within the southern reaches of the empire a malevolent force begins to stir.

What emerges will change the Annurian Empire forever.