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Overview: Andy Monk is an independent writer of dark, speculative fiction, a professional daydreamer and inventor of worlds who lives in Suffolk in the UK
His mind, however, is usually to be found in various other fantastical places.
Genre: Fantasy Aventure
01 Red Company
The war would not come to The Wolf’s Tower, not in the depths of winter. That’s what the old soldiers mutter to each other around their fires and Solace believes them, because old soldiers know more about the business of war than a seventeen-year-old girl ever will.
But Solace has the sight, like her mother who foretold her own death and her mute, troubled brother, and the sight tells her something different than the old soldiers. In its lunatic whispers, the dread stone within her warns that fire and blood are coming to consume them all.
When the village beyond the woods burns one bitter midwinter night, the old soldiers say it is just an accident, a lazy peasant not watching a candle, a spark from an untended fire. Men ride from the castle to help, but everyone says there is nothing to worry about, war has not come to The Wolf’s Tower…
Solace knows different, the fire has come as her dreams foretold and blood will follow on its heels. But no one will believe a seventeen-year girl and her mute brother, especially their father who will not hear of such things in a time when the church is eager for more witches to set upon its pyres.
But the old soldiers are right. War hasn’t come to The Wolf’s Tower in the middle of winter. Beneath a cold and bitter moon, something far worse has arrived on the winter’s breath.
02 The World’s Pain
Three weeks have passed since Solace and Ulrich left the ruins of The Wolf’s Tower. In the company of the enigmatic Morlaine they have crossed country avoiding bandits, war bands and mercenaries as civil war, fuelled by religious fervour, rips asunder the once prosperous lands of the Holy Roman Empire.
Arriving in the town of Madriel exhausted and half-starved, Morlaine insists they must part company as she follows the Night’s Road in pursuit of Saul the Bloodless alone.
Solace is determined to persuade Morlaine that her sight can help track down the Red Company and together they can defeat Saul and rescue her brother Torben, but the sight has deserted her since she left The Wolf’s Tower, leaving only her wits to change Morlaine’s mind, until an unearthly stranger offers to aid her pursuit of vengeance…
Despite its walls and soldiers, Madriel is no place of safety. Waves of refugees fleeing the fighting clog the streets, resentment is growing amongst the population whose food supplies are dwindling as fear of war, famine, plague and pestilence consume the town.
Amidst the chaos and looming inevitably that the conflict will eventually reach Madriel, Ulrich, haunted by the horrors of The Wolf’s Tower and his own part in them, tries to find redemption by helping a young woman fleeing the war. But, as people start disappearing from the streets, Solace and Ulrich discover the Red Company are not the only monsters at large in the war-ravaged lands of the Empire…
03 Empire of Dirt
On route to Magdeburg a sudden snowstorm forces Solace, Ulrich and their companions to take shelter, but a grisly discovery soon diverts them from their hunt for Graf Bulcher, Saul the Bloodless and the Red Company.
Accused of witchcraft and murder, enemies old and new circle, while unexpected allies and opportunities emerge. As they hunt a monster to prove their innocence, the tides of war breaks upon them and Solace and Ulrich must fight for their lives if they are ever to return to the Night’s Road.
Vengeance demands sacrifice and Solace believes she must be prepared to use whatever she has at her disposal, regardless of the potential cost, to destroy the Red Company, while Ulrich confronts his own demons and regrets as blood flows and bodies fall.
You do not pay the price of vengeance in silver; you pay it in whatever currency it damn well wants…
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