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For fans of S. any. Chakraborty, Robin Hobb, and Martha Wells' The Witch King, a captivating fantasy novel by Jane Lyons, the acclaimed author of The Desolation of Kings, set in a world of dark magic and magical chaos. Centuries ago, dark magic nearly destroyed the world. This is how history narrates those events. But history tells it wrong. Mathayk studied all his life to join the Holy Knights of Idalik, charged with defending their world against the forces of dark magic and the grim witches who wield it. Only traces of that cursed magic remain, nothing like the legendary days of the Gloomy Lords, the undead wizards who nearly destroyed the entire world. Until the monsters start waking up again. But there is something even stranger than that: entire forests come to life and devour anyone who dares to trespass on them, and once-peaceful animals turn into predatory beasts... as if the Earth itself has turned against humanity, in a whirlpool of chaotic magic that the knights soon prove unable to stop. It was fortunate, then, that the Gloomy Lords were not truly annihilated. One of them lies beneath the knights' fort itself. When an army of deformed tree monsters attacks the young apprentices under his care, Math decides to do the unthinkable: wake her up. This is only the beginning of his problems. Because the wizard in question, Caiataris, knows something that history has forgotten. The danger of this unbridled magic is part of a cycle repeated countless times: life after death, chaos after order. If he and Math can't find a new way to restore balance, it will be not only the end of the world as they know it, but the end of all life, everywhere.