Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0057XSNGS The city is crumbling beneath a mountain of indulgences. Its soldiers find entertainment in the beds of the castle's servants rather than fight, believing they are safe from the deadly embrace of wielders. Wars are fought to encourage otherwise absent mortality, and countless citizens suffer the terrible pangs of nalka - the hunger for intimacy. All the while, Cadra's king concerns himself with choosing which of his disappointing concubines to execute next. The duty falls upon his son, Morghiad, to restore the city's strength and the army's purpose. As Morghiad attempts to do just that, he uncovers darker horrors and encounters a young servant who could either be his greatest ally or his greatest hindrance.

The country is leaderless. The queen is gone and hope is failing. Morghiad must find The Fireblade again if he is to secure his home and his heart, but the path will not be an easy one to tread. New enemies will rise to battle him as he battles with himself, and the most fearsome woman in history will continue to produce her army of blood-hungry eisiels. Will The Fireblade be the same as before? Will she aid him? Danger looms from all corners of this Nation of Blaze. Volume 2 of The Fireblade Array \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Contains Glossary of Terms

An Anomaly of Blaze is the cause of a great many troubles, but he may also offer a solution to the woes faced by our heroes. In Calidell, The Fireblade must deal with her wars alone, and the battles she faces are nothing like those of the ten millennia before. A new monster has taken up residence in her mind, and it seeks to control her power. She must do all she can to protect the ones she loves, but can she achieve this before her will to fight leaves her? Volume 3 of The Fireblade Array \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\* Includes Glossary

The most horrific of outcomes has been avoided, but fate has other plans for those with fire and fury in their hearts. Silar must pay the price for his murderous act and follow his conscience, while King Tallyn of House Jade'an must come to realise the true implications of his abilities. In Hestavos, a vile business awaits the attention of our heroes. Union is essential if they are to set things right, but that union may cause problems of its own. Artemi's decisions of her previous lives will not be without their consequences, and fortune will not provide her with an easy tool with which to deal with them.

Artemi has been condemned to the Nightworld - a place, it is said, where the light of the sun will never warm the earth, where monsters rule the land, and where the fires burn wan and feeble. Few hopes lie there for her to mend her heartache. In the Darkworld, the peace of nine nations rests upon the shoulders of a man with shadows in his mind, ice in his bones and emptiness in his heart. A hefty price must be paid and more than one battle won if he is to succeed. And in The Crux, Silar is trapped like a rat in a pipe - a follocking bright, lifeless pipe with trees in it. He must find a way to right a wrong he once failed to prevent, but the only way is forward, and the more he sees of it, the more that way begins to look increasingly unpalatable. The Voices of Blaze speak their words of advice, but will they bring help or harm?

The Darkworld turns ever more slowly, and its skies grow bleaker by the hour. Field by field, the lands fade to dust, while creatures of the night crawl and creep and seek to claim the day. Artemi's desire to protect those she loves has resulted in catastrophe - a catastrophe that would knock the strongest stuff from any warrior - and it may now fall to others to do the right thing. Unfortunately for the fate of all worlds, each and every one of those others will have their own ideas about what that right thing is. Volume 6 of The Fireblade Array

The final volume of The Fireblade Array. Medea is trapped in a fortress made of shadows, Artemi has had her life rent from her yet again, and fate looms over all. Some heroes battle to save the world from the icy grip of darkness, but others fight to make it darker still. Will the boundaries between light and night, ice and fire, love and hate ever be restored? Volume 7 of The Fireblade Array (second edition)