SHADOWRISE by Tad Williams - Available March 2010

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Shadowrise
Part 3 in the Shadowmarch series
Available Now

Southmarch Castle is about to be caught between two implacable enemies, the ancient, immortal Qar and the insane god-king, the Autarch of Xis. Meanwhile, its two young defenders, the king’s children Princess Briony and Prince Barrick, are both trapped far away from home and fighting for their lives.

Barrick is lost behind the Shadowline, facing all the terrible dangers and mysteries of that magical twilight land. Briony is alone in a treacherous foreign court, struggling to survive with no weapon left to her but her wits. And in the midst of all this, something unbelievable is awakening underneath Southmarch, something powerful and terrible that the world has not seen for thousands of years.

In this third volume Barrick and Briony, along with Qinnitan – the Autarch’s desperate, escaped slave – a loyal soldier named Ferras Vansen, and a tiny handful of other folk, ordinary and extraordinary, must find a way to save their world, or else witness the rise of a terrible new age – an age of unending darkness.

Shadowrise available now: US • UK • Canada

Watch for the fourth and final volume in the Shadowmarch series, Shadowheart, coming November 2010.

SHADOWHEART
2008 WFC Calgary (50:11)

Watch Tad read the Prologue from Shadowheart at the 2008 World Fantasy Convention in Calgary. Originally planned as the prelude for Shadowrise, the passage that Tad reads here is now the Prologue for the fourth book, Shadowheart. The reading is followed by a Q&A session (starting at 24:25).

Tad Williams Website

SHADOWRISE by Tad Williams - Available March 2010