War no longer threatens from afar, but stands at Dmitri’s door.
When The West declares war on The South, the fragile balance between the fractured kingdoms shatters, plunging the land back into bloodshed. Summoned once more to the battlefield he tried so desperately to escape, Dmitri is forced to return to a life of steel, fire, and death. The war is terrifying, but what’s worse, is how familiar it feels.
The battlefield remembers him, an old friend reuniting with an even older enemy.
The violence Dmitri buried rises to the surface, dragging old fears and darker instincts with it. Every clash of blades threatens to pull him back into the man he once was, into the perfect weapon Joshua tried to make him be.
But the war outside the battlefield is only the beginning.
When Alexei demands a meeting with the family Dmitri abandoned, the past he fled finally catches up to him. Forced to face the father who deserted him, Dmitri must face the man responsible for the deepest scars he carries.
Old wounds tear open.
Old anger burns brighter than ever.
The ghosts of the past refuse to stay silent.
Dmitri stands at the center of a war that threatens to destroy everything around him, and everything inside him. To survive what is coming, he will have to decide whether he will be ruled by vengeance, or finally claim the future he never believed he deserved.
Book Two of The Five Cavalries continues the sweeping saga of shattered kingdoms, brutal war, and the terrible cost of facing the past.
