One Message Remains

<p>Pageantry pomp pretense and peril-The General's Turn originally published in The Deadlands drew readers into the dark world of a ceremony where Death herself might choose to join the audience... or step onto the stage.</p><p></p><p>Award-winning author Premee Mohamed presents three brand new stories set in this morally ambiguous world of war and magic. In One Message Remains Major Lyell Tzajos leads his team on a charity mission through the post-armistice world of East Seudast exhuming the bones and souls of dead foes for repatriation. But the buried fighters may have one more fight left in them-and they have chosen their weapons well.</p><p></p><p>In The Weight of What is Hollow Taya is the latest apprentice of a long-honored tradition: building the bone-gallows for prisoners of war. But her very first commission will pit her skills against both her family and her oppressor.</p><p></p><p>Finally in Forsaking All Others ex-soldier Rostyn must travel the little-known ways by night to avoid his pursuers for desertion is punishable by death. As he flees to the hoped-for sanctuary of his grandmother's village he is joined by a fellow deserter-and it seems the truth of a myth older than the land itself.</p>