The Chronicles of Toxandria

Adala Radagorian, innkeeper’s daughter, seems an unlikely pawn in the great game played between those rival gods who contest the fate of the world and whose machinations have influenced the course of human history since time immemorial. Possessed of wit, beauty and an education uncommon in her class, she finds herself bound up in events where the fate of empires lies in the balance. An equally unlikely love imperils the foundation of her world, tears her away from the simple circumstances of her upbringing and thrusts her into the heart of imperial politics.

In a land where a cruel and jealous god holds sway, the currents of history converge to pluck one young girl from obscurity and thrust her blinking into the maelstrom of world events. Stilitha Zandravo, daughter of a priest, had led a quiet and uneventful life on the island of Eudora in the religious state of Vhanakhor. A member of the ruling classes, she had nevertheless always felt a curious affinity for the conquered people who laboured in the nearby valley and a curious distance from the society that she had been born into.

A headstrong young man, a wealthy duellist with his pride expressed through his sword, meets a beautiful bookish girl with barely a penny to her name, as their nation stands on the brink of war. In a conflict between rival gods as well as a war between kingdoms, magic and prophecy play a vital...

A beautiful girl, in love with books, and a vain, self-centred duellist in bustling metropolitan Shirragg, seemed an unlikely couple, and yet Lissadora Ganafreo and Jerrakiyan Savanake were destined to play a part in the great game of the gods, as the rumour of war rumbles across the great plains of Toxandria.