Bladetalker – Paperback

Steel never lies…

One last job in the rotting riverside city of Aventine, and the reckless mercenary Cyrus Bladetalker, along with his happy-go-lucky teleporting dog, can retire young and rich. The job: bladetalk with one sword. Find the story echoing in the steel, tell it to the royal family, collect the gold, and catch the next riverboat out of Aventine before everything goes to hell.

Easy, right?

What seems like a simple task explodes into an escalating nightmare. The blade is cursed, and the cursemakers are more than willing to kill Cyrus or worse in order to fulfill their dark purposes. And on top of all that, a horror from Cyrus’ grim past, something that bled out his fear of death forever, has come to confront him once more.

But Cyrus’ know-when-to-quit broke long before Aventine, and nothing, not venomous banebeasts, steelbound demons, hired thugs, siren sorceresses, or cursemaker assassins will get him to give up his vengeful fight for answers, to set one thing right in a world gone dark.

Even if it costs him everything.

Dark fantasy adventure meets arrow-swift pacing in Bladetalker, a standalone novel by Cael J. Amari.