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'Ossard is falling... Growing up in a city of Merchant Princes, Juvela discovers she can see what others can't. The very currents of the celestial are open to her, and that includes the truths they hide: An escalating series of unsolved kidnappings have been haunting the city-state, leaving its shadows pooled deep with innocent blood. Has Juvela been cursed with the Witches' Kiss - or perhaps something worse? Yet, more is to come, for not only has she witnessed an abduction, but she will have to endure a role in the victim's ritual death. For Juvela is about to become forsaken, and that's before she learns the real truth of not just the crimes plaguing Ossard's bloody streets, but the wider world: A world at war, and governed by gods whose highest pleasure is to sup on the taste of death. ' (Publication summary)

'The wealthy city of Ossard has fallen amidst blood, rioting and flames. Through the chaos, Juvela leads the hopeful to safety within a set of mysterious ruins, but are they already claimed?' (Publication summary)

'Ossard remains fallen and under Death's sway. The Inquisition and their holy knights, leading the largest force the Church of Baimiopia has assembled in centuries, now lays defeated and in bloody ruins. Meanwhile, the great hope of Life, Juvela, has faltered and succumbed to the divine addiction of soul feeding. In Ossard's Northcountry Death's forces are free to rampage. Far to the west, Sef and Anton continue in their quest to reach the one ally that might be able to help rally the scattered forces of Life, the divine mother of the angelic Dagruan, Dorloth. Yet she has her own enemies, as she is encircled and besieged by Kalraith's monstrous gargoyle swarms. There, they will soon discover Death has a very long reach. Ossard's Shadow follows on from the second Ossard book, Ossard's Hope. The Ossard series, begun in The Fall of Ossard, will be concluded with Ossard Rising and finally Lae Ossard.' (Publication summary)

'Following on from the third Ossard book, Ossard's Shadow:

'Juvela and the Prince have reached Ba Er Kaan, an ogre city of the dead, so her truth can be revealed.

'But they are not alone.

'Meanwhile, far to the west, Sef and Anton have reached the borders of the Dagruan heartland.

'Yet they are still pursued.

'And back in the Northcountry, the cultist controlled city of Ossard stirs to rise anew.' (Publication summary)