Sword of the sunken king

Author : LUCAN STRAND

SHE CAME TO STEAL A SWORD. THE SWORD CAME TO CLAIM HER.

Ilsa Varn has broken forty-one swords, and every one of them failed her. She is a battle-scarred mercenary with a price on her head, a cursed past she can’t outrun, and one last contract to take: dive beneath the haunted Glass Sea and recover Hollowtide, the legendary blade of a drowned kingdom.

What she doesn’t know is that the sword has been waiting three hundred years for her.

Below the waves lies Ysmere, a city of black glass and ghost-lamps. It is ruled by a dead king, guarded by armoured knights who never sleep, and crawling with saltwights, pearl-spiders and worse. Behind her, in a lord’s tower, stands the man who hired her: Sevrin Ostrander, a Tide-Lord with a crown of salt and a plan that will drown the world. He doesn’t want the blade. He wants what it is tied to.

Ilsa has a hand-picked crew of killers, scholars and one terrified boy with a bow. She has a bell of iron and glass to carry her down. And she has a choice she never asked for: wield the sword and break the chain, or let the sea take everything.

Sword of the Sunken King is fast, brutal, pulpy heroic fantasy in the great sword and sorcery tradition. It has blade-and-sorcery action, a reluctant heroine, ghost kings, monsters, betrayals and a hard-won, bittersweet ending.

If you love Robert E. Howard, Joe Abercrombie, David Gemmell, Fritz Leiber and Karl Edward Wagner, or any story where a swordswoman walks into a cursed ruin and comes out changed, this is your next read.

Grab your copy now and dive into the deep.

📖 355 pages