What do you do when your goddess is murdered? If you’re a former temple assassin with a huge price on your head like Aral Kingslayer, you go into the shadow jack business, solving problems and doing odd jobs on the fringes of the underworld in Tien. Or is it? When Aral delivers the message, he gets the biggest surprise of his new life, and maybe, just maybe, the chance to forge a future where he won’t have to be ashamed of himself. Not until a young woman named Maylien hires him to deliver a secret message.Ī simple enough job. He doesn’t much like what he’s become, and Triss likes it even less, but Aral doesn’t see any way out. Now he’s a shadow jack, a free lance problem solver who makes his living out of odd jobs on the wrong side of the law. Before his life fell apart and he crawled into the whiskey bottle. Before the wanted posters and the sentence of death. Before they murdered his goddess and burned her temple to the ground. With his familiar, a living shadow named Triss, at his side, he killed for a cause, never for money. Fallen Blade is a six book series beginning with Broken Blade and ending with Darkened Blade.Īral Kingslayer was an assassin once upon a time, perhaps the best in the world, one of the fabled Blades of Namara, goddess of Justice.
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