When the Walls Fall: A Dark Journey Resumes (The Night's Road)

Walls don’t just protect you from the world; sometimes, they protect the world from you…

“In a time of nothing, everything has value. Save a man’s life.”

After finally killing one of the Red Company, Solace wants nothing more than to continue her pursuit of those responsible for murdering her father, taking her brother and destroying her life. Yet, to fight an army, she knows she needs an army. Hendrick, Markgräf of Gothen, who loved her long-dead mother, has an army, and she wants it. But is she prepared to give herself to an older man she does not love and barely knows to obtain one? Solace finds the business of seducing and manipulating a man to give her what she wants is a particularly tricky proposition for a girl who has never even been kissed. And once you open something a man has long since locked away from the light of day, who knows what trouble you might release…

For Solace’s faithful retainer, Ulrich Renard, future and past entwine as guilt for the deaths he blames on himself competes with the impending certainty of his demise at the hands of his former masters. He watches Solace with growing concern as she prepares to pay whatever price vengeance requires. But despite his best efforts to shun anyone who attempts to draw close to him whilst trying to protect his mistress from herself, Ulrich finds friendship can breach the most stubborn defences.

As a journey to a doomed city, fuelled by shattering premonitions beckons, Solace uses anything and anyone at her disposal, whatever the price, to sate the dark gods of vengeance that are consuming her soul. At the same time, Ulrich, bound to her by duty, honour and something he cannot acknowledge, knows that, as the dead man’s voice whispering in the breeze tells him, save her, and you save yourself… Join Solace von Tassau on her relentless pursuit of retribution in When the Walls Fall, the gripping fourth instalment of the Night's Road saga.