The White Rose

In the very heart of the continent, far to the east of Kurganye, Vesla, the Towers of Charas—on the other side of the rocky desert called the Windy Edge—lay the Plain of Fear: a vast, barren, harsh, and oddly shaped land…

Lately, the forces of the Lady and the surviving Taken have been invading the Plain of Fear more and more often, where the remnants of the disgraced Black Squad under the leadership of the newly found White Rose have been hiding from their former employers. Hard times have come for the Black Squad. They can’t afford losses. Any fallen soldier could have been an old friend…

But a crisis is approaching—an historical moment—when the one who has risen from the grave gathers strength for a world-crushing blow. The clouds of the Last Battle thicken over everything, and it is not wise to rush the most powerful creature in the world. Even the fact that the Lady intends to trust a mortal is already astonishing. All flows, and she has seen three futures. Three. And in none of them is there a place for the Lady. In one future, a deaf child will win—but that is the least likely outcome, and she will die for victory together with all her comrades. In another, her husband will tear through the grave bonds and restore his Lordship. And darkness will fall for ten thousand years. And in the third, he is broken forever. This is the strongest, most haunting vision… but the price is high…