Ten years ago, King Thagnor burned Äncalë.Some wounds do not heal.Faced with the unstoppable spread of the Scourge, Thagnor made a choice that would haunt two kingdoms. He unleashed a terrible weapon upon Äncalë, destroying the elven city in the name of saving his own people.Then Wurty Longfallow discovered what the king had believed impossible.There had been another way.The Scourge was cured.Äncalë remained ash.Now six assassins are sailing toward Darthnor.Their black-hulled ship bears the name of the weapon that destroyed an elven city. Their purpose is just as clear: Kill King Thagnor.Wurty wants nothing to do with kings.After everything Wurty and Alia survived, they have built a quiet life far from armies, politics, and the bitter divide between men and elves. But when dying crops draw Wurty back into the affairs of the kingdom, he discovers something even more troubling.His young daughter is hearing voices no one else can hear-and knowing things no one ever told her.Then the assassins reach Talnor.Their target is a king.But kings are not the only ones who bleed.When vengeance strikes the royal family, Wurty and Alia are caught in what follows-and old wounds threaten to become a new war.Ten years ago, Thagnor's Bane destroyed a city.Now it has come for the king who gave it its name.Thagnor's Bane is the second novel in The Certainty of Kings Saga, an adult epic fantasy series filled with political intrigue, ancient mysteries, divided kingdoms, and characters forced to choose between loyalty, duty, vengeance, and hope. It continues the story begun in The Last King of Äncalë.
