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Shadowheart
With his Shadowmarch novels, Tad Williams has created an intricate setting of astonishing contrasts—a world of honorable enemies and traitorous friends, where extreme brutality and exquisite beauty go hand in hand, and where men who reach for godhood resort to diabolical means.

Now, in Shadowheart, the climactic conclusion to the bestselling series, Sulepis, the insane Autarch of Xis, has Southmarch in his grasp, and King Olin’s usurper, Hendon Tolly, at his bidding. Sulepis is preparing to bring to fruition a scheme so mad even heaven trembles: He intends to become a god and enslave the world! To that end, he will make a vile sacrifice in the ancient tunnels beneath Southmarch Castle. But he has not planned on Hendon Tolly, who has nefarious ambitions of his own....

Meanwhile, Prince Barrick’s pact with the Qar has succeeded, but to convey the message to the sorceress Yasammez, he must risk the wrath of the gods themselves. As Princess Briony travels home with a small army, deep below the castle something powerful is being called awake…and it will be up to Barrick and Briony and their handful of allies to save their world from the rise of a terrible new age—an age of neverending darkness.