Winter's End: Season of War I (Legends of Iathia Book 1) Kindle Edition

The ice is melting. What it reveals may be worse than the cold.For nearly two thousand years, the races of Iathia have survived in isolation — sheltering behind borders of ice and ignorance, fighting Abominations in their forests and pretending the wider world does not exist. Now the thaw has come, and the borders are opening.Kataari, son of the Shogun of Shaegen, has spent his life suffocating under his father's expectations. When three coastal villages are burned to ash by four-armed raiders from beyond the ice, he defies his father and rides north to investigate. What he finds is worse than raiders. The Haunted Forest is expanding. Creatures born of nightmare are growing bolder. And beyond the tree line, he discovers something his people believed was myth: another civilization. The Ursa — nine-foot bear-folk in iron armor — are as real as the sword at his hip.Captured by an Ursa knight named Magnus Ironhide, Kataari must survive as a prisoner, then an unlikely ally, as a threat greater than either of them emerges from the deep forest. When his hands begin to glow with a power his people fear and the Ursa revere, Kataari faces a choice that will reshape his understanding of the world — and the war that is coming for all of it.On the steppes beyond the melting ice, a slave-born warrior named Aruktai is uniting the Quanari hordes under a single banner. Forty-five thousand riders. And the voice in his dreams is whispering: South.Winter's End is the first book in the Legends of Iathia epic fantasy series. Read more