With the Illandian Spring Tournament in full swing, the citizens and nobles of Arkaelyon’s capital city are in a fever of excited speculation as the king’s only daughter, Danielle de Brie, and her twin brother, Kane, prepare to face each other in the tourney ring for the deciding match. Determined to free herself from the fear her twin brother has always provoked in her and to show the world that men such as Kane de Brie can be defeated, Danielle has every intension of making her brother’s...

It is a time of great darkness when the sun has lost its brilliance. Mankind is divided into two warring factions--the worshippers of the God of the Light and the servants of Eternal Night. It will take the courage of three people to embark on a quest to bring back the light.

A raid upon the high seas signals an attack of unprecedented magnitude by the forces of darkness. For the holiest of holies, the Tear of the Gods has been lost to the Temple of Ishap. After a raid planned by Bear, one of the most brutal pirates to sail the Bitter Sea, goes dramatically wrong, the colossal gem sinks below the waves. Only one man survives with knowledge of its exact location. But he's gone underground in Krondor. He is Knute, treacherous pilot of the pirate ship. Bear...

Fool's Run. Seven years ago, a vision drove Terra Viridian to the murder of fifteen hundred innocents underneath the blazing sky of Desert Sector. Now she waits within the orbiting penal colony known as the Underworld, doomed to a life sentence, seeing nothing but the endless, enigmatic vision unfolding before her eyes. On Earth, Patroller Aaron Fisher, whose wife was one of Terra's victims, searches for answers and for the missing sister of Terra Viridian: he too is driven by a...