From out of the East they came riding like a merciless
plague--destroying kingdom after kingdom and the sovereigns who had
previously mocked the warlord Loethar and his barbarian horde. Now only
one land remains unconquered--the largest, richest, and most powerful
realm of the Denova Set . . .
Penraven.
The Valisar royals of Penraven face certain death, for the savage tyrant
Loethar covets what they alone possess: the fabled Valisar Enchantment,
an irresistible power to coerce, which will belong to Loethar once
every Valisar has been slain. But the last hope of the besieged kingdom
is being sent in secret from his doomed home, in the company of a single
warrior. The future of Penraven now rests on the shoulders of the young
Crown Prince Leonel who, though untried and untested in the ways of war,
must survive brutality and treachery in order to claim the Valisar
throne.