From the daring & critically acclaimed master of historical fiction Conn Iggulden DARIEN is the first book in the Empire of Salt an epic new fantasy series of spellbinding imagination TWELVE FAMILIES ONE THRONE The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age Twelve families keep order with soldiers & artefacts spies & memories clinging to a peace that shifts & crumbles The people of the city endure what they cannot change Here amongst old feuds a plot is hatched to kill a king It will summon strangers to the city
- Elias Post a hunter Tellius an old swordsman banished from his home Arthur a boy who cannot speak Daw Threefold a chancer & gambler Vic Deeds who feels no guilt
- & Nancy a girl whose talent might be the undoing of them all As the sun sets their arrival inside the walls will spark a series of explosive events Before the sun returns six destinies will have been made
- & lost
- in Darien Welcome to the Empire of Salt where sword & sorcery is at its finest