The Drowned Oath

<p><strong>The Drowned Oath</strong></p><p><em>Book Two of The Saints' Reckoning</em></p><p>The kingdom rots. The Crown's hand is broken. Princes burn with zeal. Prophets cry for fire. And the sea remembers every oath.</p><p>Prince Illarion wasted by sickness blazes with a zeal that consumes more than it crowns. Bogdan the priest blows on the embers fanning ruin in God's name. Yaroslav Krovin wolf-scarred veteran finds every step of fate's path binding him tighter to chains he cannot break. Markov quick of wit and light of hand scrabbles like a rat in a sinking ship yet the tide drags him deeper still.</p><p>And out of the reeds comes Yelka-wolf at her heel raven at her shoulder her eyes older than her face. Whether healer or curse no man can yet say.</p><p>From drowned reeds to storm-dark stone rebellion rises and old faiths stir. In every oath lies fire. In every oath lies blood.</p><p>The drowned remember.</p>