Song of Serenese Steel is a projected trilogy of trilogies that begins with a coming-of-age story about a group of teens whose culture has rigorous notions of who may hold power, of what it means to be a man or a woman, and of the distinctions between blood and friendship. From birth people are taught to set their own desires aside in order to fulfill their duty and society’s expectations. But what if they want to live life on their own terms? In such a world is there a place for people who refuse to conform?
Hail, Deathbringer!
For generations children of the powerful from every region of LaMarca have attended the Accademia to prepare themselves as the Federation’s future leaders. Caught in the midst of the ensuing tumult is a group of teens who must choose a side as forces beyond their control threaten them, their families, and their way of life. Their lives converge and follow separate paths as the fate of the Federation is decided. Friendships form and dissolve and impact the ultimate resolution of a nation’s rulership.
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A Knife To Set The World Aright
In this dramatic sequel to Hail, Deathbringer! the Accademians have graduated into a world engulfed in turmoil. The prophecies of the seers appear fulfilled. Porto Sereno has fallen to the Kingdom of Dalamia, which now plots to seize the Vitruvian Canal.
Reeling from his father’s murder, Mirko becomes a soldier and vows to fight the Northern occupation. His mother and Ankara flee the city to hide in the Petraian Mountains. Silvio enlists as a Federation archer and battles enemy ships on Vitruvius Bay. Sandro and Martino’s covert military unit assumes a daunting mission: restore order in the regions and retake Porto Sereno.
Moving against the weakened Federation, Ella, her brother Claudio, and other separatists wreak havoc throughout the regions in their fight to establish independent realms.
In the North the growing cult of Agamantism seeks to restore traditional beliefs and establish theocratic rule. Its priests captivate the imagination of the Dalamian princess and through Rhiannon insinuate the religion into the highest level of power. Agamantism intrigues Fide as well. Having remained in the North, he follows a group of Agamantians on their pilgrimage to Sky Forest, hoping to discover the Ashayari origins of the new faith.
Amid the upheaval can anyone predict who and what will prevail? Will the seer’s prophecy of the deathbringer come to pass? Or can anyone really know the unknowable?