Book One: The Apprentice Trilogy
Faltori has killed more people than there are days in a year. She was a soldier of the Church of the Nine, branded an oathbreaker for a crime she never committed and cursed with a mark that burns anew every day. For twenty years she has hunted the ones who betrayed her, believing their deaths would set her free. The killing is done now. Yet, the pain remains. And the debt, it seems, was never hers to settle.
Dint is seventeen, an orphan, and a liar. He charms tavern girls with stories he didn't earn and borrows magic that was never his – until a golden-eyed thief robs him of an enchanted ring worth more than he can earn in a lifetime of honest work. If he’s going to get it back, he’ll have to become the man he pretends to be.
In the crowded city of Semble, their paths cross over a single stolen artefact: one that sorcerers have killed to possess, and malevolent powers are already moving to seize. A warrior with nothing left to lose. A boy who has never had anything at all. And a secret buried beneath the city that could remake the whole world.
Swordlords | Rhett Sinnema
Rhett is the author of Swordlords, a book about what it takes to become a hero. It’s the first in a series that blends everything he loves from Sword and Sorcery, Epic, Cozy, and Progression Fantasy. He loves exploring heroism, honour, virtue, and redemption and examining characters who embrace or reject these values and aspirations. He believes that both happy endings and tragedies have their place and that small stories can change your life more profoundly than big ones.
When not writing, he’s usually trying to pick up something heavy, get to the top of a mountain, discuss books and movies, or search for new recipes. He lives in Cape Town with his wife, debating what they should make for dinner.
