A Coat of Shadows (The Prisoner's Tale)

He began with nothing, but became a name even kings and queens feared to speak. Now he sits bound in their deepest prison cell, drugged, with captors watching his every move.

And yet, he is the calmest one in the room. This is his interrogation. This is his story.

Not every deception is a lie, and not every truth is honest.

I've been known by many names. A legend so dangerous that it is only whispered by fools in the shadows of night. I've been imprisoned in every city I have entered, and yet each cage has failed to hold me. They go as far as to say that I disrupted Fate itself, that I alone ruined all that is pure and true…

Can you blame them for trying so hard to lock me away?

My beginnings are modest: an orphan, a street thief, an army deserter, a coward. And still I reached a pinnacle of might that cannot even be fathomed. An array of glory that dare not be dreamed.

It was my name that was feared above everything else.

So how could such a force collapse from such heights? Why did I fall into an abyss of madness?

This is my story. Be sure to pay close attention.

A Coat of Shadows opens a new epic fantasy series. The unlikely rise of a starving boy from gutter to glory, from pickpocket to assassin, from deserter to mage, from exile to lord. Yet all claim madness took him somewhere along the way.

For readers drawn to legendary first-person narrators, mysterious truths, powerful magic, and stories where the villain might be the one telling the tale.