Book description
Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even
dream of. Having smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five
princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of
Chisholm, together they have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest
naval power in the history of Safehold. Charis is transformed into a
place of refuge for all who treasure freedom.
But their success may prove short-lived. The Group of Four, the clique
that controls the Church of God Awaiting - and, through the church, most
of Safehold - has decreed their destruction. Mother Church’s entire
purpose is to prevent all to which Charis is committed, and she will not
rest until it has been erased forever.
But there are still matters about which the Church knows nothing,
including Cayleb and Sharleyan’s adviser, friend, and guardian, the
mystic warrior-monk named Merlin Athrawes. Merlin knows all about
catastrophic battles against impossible odds, because he is in fact the
cybernetic avatar of a young woman named Nimue Alban, who died a
thousand years ago.
Mother Church’s juggernaut rumbles down on Charis, but Merlin Athrawes
and a handful of extraordinary human beings stand in its path. The Group
of Four is about to discover just how potent the power of human freedom
truly is. David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy
author whose most popular and enduring character, Honor Harrington, has
been developed through 13 novels and four shared-universe anthologies.
