Where Steel Failed

He survives. His companions do not. At an isolated monastery, Seraph watches a single man tear through the finest soldiers in his kingdom: his fellow Guardians of the Realm, sent with him to retrieve a rusted sword the Palace cannot even name. Their armor, their training, their courage—none of it is enough. A secret warrior order takes him in and offers him a way to face the killer. First, he must learn to wield the forces that made his sword useless. His teachers can fade from sight. Powers he never knew existed begin to answer him. Every lesson hurts, and every day he spends learning is a day the killer can spend mastering what he stole.