Blood of Innocents

<p><strong>A novice sorcerer may hold the key to saving his world--or be the instrument of its destruction--in Mitchell Hogan's <em>Blood of Innocents</em> the second book in The Sorcery Ascendant Sequence a mesmerizing saga of high fantasy that combines magic malevolence and mystery.</strong></p><p>Anasoma jewel of the Mahruse Empire has fallen.</p><p>As orphaned monk-raised Caldan and his companions flee the city leaving behind their hopes for a new beginning horrors from the time of the Shattering begin to close in.</p><p>With Miranda's mind broken by forbidden sorcery Caldan does the unthinkable to save her: he breaks the most sacrosanct laws of the Protectors. But when the emperor's warlocks arrive to capture him Caldan realizes that his burgeoning powers may be more of a curse than a blessing and the enemies assailing the empire may be rivaled by more sinister forces within.</p><p>And soon the blood of innocents may be on Caldan's own hands.</p>