From the author of Wicked Gentlemen and The Cadeleonian Series comes a new, three-volume novel. When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to the fate he shares with Kyle-to awaken the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world. Contains parts 1 to 3 of The Rifter series: 1. The Shattered Gates 2. Servants of the Crossed Gates 3. Black Blades