Start the Winter Mage with the two novels that tell the Obsidian War from both sides, with free courier delivery anywhere in South Africa.
 
Legacy of Obsidian. Linnard is a highborn son raised behind castle walls – sheltered, soft, and wholly unready for the world sharpening its knives beyond them. When the truce between the peninsula's clans fractures, he is thrown from the practice yard into a widening war, and years on the march teach him the blade, the price of loyalty, and the oldest lesson of power: no one is your friend.
 
Dawn of the Empress. The same war, fought from the Dawn side – and then forty years beyond it. General Gohei has served an emperor who is never braver than the men around him, and it has cost him everything he loved. What follows binds three generations of one family, from the undead pressing at the Neck every winter to a throne that will go to whichever twin princess can win a game only one of them intends to play fair.
 
Two clans. One war. Two very different ways of surviving it.
 
In the set: two paperbacks · R560 bought separately · R470 · free courier delivery in SA.
 
When you're ready for the rest, the Books 3–4 Bundle saves you another R90.