Darkness Beckons: A Dark Journey Bereaves (The Night's Road)

To defeat the darkness, you must become the darkness… We all die a little every day, don’t we? From the moment we’re born, death is coming, death is waiting, death is patient. Driven by her unimaginable loss, Solace von Tassau, alongside her loyal retainer Ulrich Renard and the disparate company she has gathered upon the road, reaches the desolate Thasbald Castle, home of the monstrous Seigfried, Graf Bulcher—the man responsible for all that has befallen her. A year after the Red Company destroyed The Wolf’s Tower, Solace, accompanying the terrified Karoline, Bulcher’s fourteen-year-old bride-to-be, is determined to avenge her father’s death and the atrocities visited upon her home, whatever the cost. In the shadow of the wedding festivities, Solace hatches a dark plot to depose the cruel and debased Graf, force him to reveal the whereabouts of the elusive Red Company before they reach the doomed city of Magdeburg, and steal enough silver to raise an army to confront Saul the Bloodless and his legion of vampires. But vengeance is never straightforward and always demands sacrifice. Yet the horrors of Thasbald Castle are even more depraved than Solace and Ulrich could have imagined. As the twisted legacy of Graf Bulcher is unwittingly unleashed, a new terror is set loose upon the world. Blood and darkness beckon at every turn in this grim fortress of secrets. Solace will use any tool, any ally, and any means necessary to quench her thirst for revenge and fill the emptiness inside her—but as she will soon learn, when you cut a deal with the damned, blood will flow… Join Solace von Tassau and Ulrich Renard in Darkness Beckons, the terrifying fifth instalment of the Night's Road saga, where vengeance comes at a harrowing price.