Son of the Poison Rose marks the second installment of New York
Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's epic, swashbuckling Kagen
the Damned series.
The Silver Empire is in ruins. War is in the wind. Kagen and his allies
are on the run from the Witch-king. Wild magic is running rampant
everywhere. Spies and secret cabals plot from the shadows of golden
thrones.
Kagen Vale is the most wanted man in the world, with a death sentence on
his head and a reward for him--dead or alive--that would tempt a saint.
The Witch-king has new allies who bring a terrible weapon--a cursed
disease that drives people into a murderous rage. If the disease is
allowed to spread, the whole of the West will tear itself apart.
In order to build an army of resistance fighters and unearth magical
weapons of his own, Kagen and his friends have to survive attacks and
storms at sea, brave the haunted wastelands of the snowy north, fight
their way across the deadly Cathedral Mountains, and rediscover a lost
city filled with cannibal warriors, old ghosts, and monsters from other
worlds. Along with his reckless adventurer brothers, Kagen races against
time to save more than the old empire... if he fails the world will be
drenched in a tsunami of bloodshed and horror.
Son of the Poison Rose weaves politics and espionage, sorcery and
swordplay, treachery and heroism as the damned outcast Kagen fights
against the forces of ultimate darkness.
