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The reckless pursuit of honor exposes an empire to demonic invasion, in this epic fantasy novel of duty and warfare, set in the extraordinary world of Legend of the Five Rings.
Striking Dawn Castle defends the mountains between the Rokugan empire and the demon-haunted Shadowlands. When a mythical city is discovered in the forbidding peaks, Hida Haru, heir and sore disappointment to his family, seizes the opportunity to prove himself. His rash expedition ends in disaster - just one samurai returns alive, and Haru is lost. Before a power struggle can break out, Striking Dawn's battle-hardened commander, Ochiba, is dispatched to rescue Haru. She succeeds against supernatural horrors, but Haru is... changed. Now, mysterious deaths and ill fortune plague his family. Something evil is loose and must be stopped, at any cost.
David Annandale
David Annandale is the author of the Warhammer Age of Sigmar novels Callis & Toll and A Dynasty of Monsters, and the Neferata titles Mortarch of Blood and The Dominion of Bones. His work for Warhammer 40,000 includes Apostle, Ephrael Stern: The Heretic Saint, Warlord: Fury of the God-Machine, the Yarrick series, and several stories involving the Grey Knights. His Horus Heresy titles include the novels Ruinstorm and The Damnation of Pythos, and the Primarchs novels Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar, Vulkan: Lord of Drakes and Mortarion: The Pale King. For Warhammer Horror, he has written the novels The House of Night and Chain and The Deacon of Wounds, as well as the novella The Faith and the Flesh. David lectures at a Canadian university, on subjects ranging from English literature to horror films and video games.
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