Books like Promise of Blood
Field Marshal Tamas leads a coup against the king of Adro and sends the royal cabal of mages to the guillotine, but their dying words hint at a threat from the gods, and his son Taniel, a powder mage, and Adamat, a retired detective, set out to learn what it means.
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Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
Furies of Calderon
In Alera, a realm modelled on Rome where nearly everyone commands elemental spirits called furies, Tavi, a fifteen-year-old shepherd with no furycrafting at all, is caught up in a plot against the First Lord as a horde of Marat threatens his valley.
Fireborne
In a city that overthrew its dragonriding aristocracy, Annie, a peasant girl, and Lee, an orphan of the old regime, have risen through the new dragonrider programme, and survivors of the old nobility come back with dragons of their own.
Gardens of the Moon
The Malazan Empire turns its armies on Darujhistan, the last free city of Genabackis, and Ganoes Paran, a young noble drawn into the games of the gods, is sent to command the Bridgeburners, a battered company the empress may want dead.
The Black Company
The annalist of a hard-bitten mercenary company records the year his brothers-in-arms took a contract with a sorceress-empress and found themselves fighting for the wrong side.
Witchmark
Miles Singer, a war veteran working as a psychiatric doctor under a false name to hide his magic, is asked by a dying man to find his killer, alongside a beautiful stranger named Tristan Hunter.
The Shadow of the Gods
Three hundred years after the gods of Vigrið destroyed one another, Orka, a farmer's wife with a violent past, Varg, an escaped thrall hunting his sister's killer, and Elvar, a warlord's daughter with a war-band, are drawn into a hunt for the gods' remains.
The Way of Shadows
Azoth, a street orphan in the slums of Cenaria, begs the legendary wetboy Durzo Blint to take him as an apprentice in the art of killing, and has to give up his old life and his name to do it.
City of Stairs
Shara Komayd, a spy posing as a junior diplomat from Saypur, the nation that conquered its old masters by killing their gods, arrives in the occupied city of Bulikov to investigate the murder of a Saypuri historian.
The Shadow of What Was Lost
Twenty years after the Gifted lost a war and were bound by the Tenets, Davian, a student at one of their schools who can't use his powers, discovers he can do something forbidden, and flees with his friends as an ancient threat stirs in the north.
The Black Prism
A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.
The Black Tides of Heaven
Mokoya and Akeha, twins given as children to the Grand Monastery to settle their mother the Protector's debt, grow up apart, one with the gift of prophecy and the other drawn to the rebels against her.