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The Memory of Flames
Series · 7 books · 2009-2015

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#1

The Adamantine Palace

2009

One man wants to rule the wealthy Empire. He is ready to poison the king as he did his father, murder his lover and bed her daughter. Is he fit to be king? Unknown to him, a dragon is on the loose. Returned to full intelligence and fury, it could wreak havoc. Also, actions of an unscrupulous mercenary may loose hundreds of dragons.
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#2

The King of the Crags

2010

Prince Jehal killed his way to the top, but cannot enjoy the throne. He feels too much for the wife he married for power. His lover knows. Out in the realms, loyalists to the old regime plot. Red Riders herald revolution. And where is the White Dragon, recovered from taming alchemical liquid that blocks memories of when dragons ruled—and the world burned?
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#3

The Order of the Scales

2011

As the various factions fight for control of the Adamatine Palace mankinds nemesis approaches. The realms dragons are awakening from their alchemical sedation and returning to their native fury. They can remember why they were created and they now know what mankind has done to them. And their revenge will be brutal.
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#4

The Black Mausoleum

2012

Two years have passed since the events of the Order of the Scales. Across the realms, dragons are still hatching. Hatching, and hatching free. Skorl is an Ember, a soldier trained from birth to fight dragons. He is a living weapon, one-shot only, saturated with enough dragon-poison to bring down a monster all on his own. Misanthrope, violent and a drunk, to fulfil his purpose and slay a dragon, means to be eaten. Now Skorl has a he can hang for his crimes, or he can go with the last of the Adamantine Men, fighting against an enemy he was born to face. Rat is an Outsider. He's on the run and he's stumbled onto something that's going to make him rich beyond all his dreams. It's just a shame that the end of the world has started without him. Kataros is an alchemist, one of the order responsible for keeping the dragons in check. One of the order that has just failed, and disastrously so. Two men, one woman. One chance to save the world from a storm of dragons ...
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#5

Dragon Queen

2013

Before dragons laid waste to man's empire, the fearsome monsters were used for war and gifts of surpassing wealth to buy favour in constant political battles. The Dragon Queen was notorious then. Now she is a prisoner. But no-one is more dangerous than when caged.
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#6

The Splintered Gods

2014

Forced to wage war by an unknown, the Dragon Queen is hated, safe while she has her dragon, but her necklace throttles her if she tries to flee. Berren the Bloody Judge, in another's body, seeks the man who stole his life. When he is in danger, a power inside him disintegrates others around. That power will lead to the Dragon Queen and battle.
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#7

The Silver Kings

2015

Praised by the likes of Joe Abercrombie and Brent Weeks, Stephen Deas has made dragons his own. The Silver King, half-god, legend and myth, is returning. Once he fought his brother, the Black Moon, and his dragons, and was defeated. But the Black Moon was also weakened, and a millennia has passed. Humanity has grown used to a world without gods, a world where they were masters of all - including the terrifying dragons. But the dragons have awakened, the hole in reality is expanding, and the shackles that kept the half-gods controlled have been broken. The Black Moon lives on in the body of Berren Crowntaker, and has taken control. With an army behind him, the dragons above and the Dragon Queen at his side, he goes to war with his brother. The worlds are turning, and only one thing is sure - there will be an ending. THE SILVER KING is the triumphant conclusion to one of the most brutal and wide-ranging fantasy series of recent years.

Author

Stephen Deas
Stephen Deas
Author · 16 books

Stephen Deas is an engineer in the aerospace industry, working on communications and imaging technology in the defence sector. He is married with two children and lives near Writtle in Essex. Also writes as Nathan Hawke and S.J. Deas.

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