Dark Clouds Rising

Dark Clouds Rising is the first book in the Black Star series exploring the fantasy world Crux a world of ancient falsehoods and broken nations. Within all this chaos heroes rise to a calling even they cannot fully understand.In Flesh and Dreams Stephen an amnesiac is found in a forest wounded. Adopted by a group of dragonslayers Stephen travels in their quest to rediscover their fervor against Dragons.The quest takes them through the ruin of raided cities the hall of a corrupt noblewoman the fire of a battle against a barbaric horde and the heart of the enemy's lair.All the while Stephen searches for his past but a shadow grows in his heart that whispers gleeful memories of bloodlust and rage.In Reflections Captain Serdis of the Nessus Law-enforcers hunts a cult that kills for pleasure.The religious cult worships a god of death from the country of Boncawa to the north a country that warred with Serdis's beloved nation.He knows the cult would like nothing better than to start a war again and Serdis plans to prevent such an event but fate has assured his failure.