Absolon Creed - R. S. Ford

A legendary soldier is the last line of defense between his city and complete eldritch chaos in this grimdark adventure from an unmissable voice in epic fantasy. n Bastion, the once shining capital of Morrengard, teeters on the brink. Its grand spires are crumbling and its nobility fight over scraps, all while eldritch creatures stalk the streets.

The only thing standing in the way of its utter destruction is the Order of Draken: a knightly order more brutal than the threats the city faces. And its most brutal champion... Absolon Creed.

n n When two nobles are found murdered in a manner most grotesque, suspicions arise about a traitor within the Order itself. Creed is tasked with investigating, and for his sins he is saddled with a partner: Guenivar Blackmere, a daughter of nobility and the Order's newest, and most untested, initiate. n n Together, they are plunged into Bastion's fetid underbelly, where warlocks rub elbows with corrupt nobles, and necromancers cavort with the dead.

Guenivar must learn fast or perish under Creed's cold tutelage. Her mentor is quick to anger, and about as friendly as a cornered wolf, though it soon seems that is the only way to survive these unforgiving streets. n n But as the investigation deepens, Guenivar discovers a secret about him that could shatter everything she believed about the order and its heroes.

While Creed himself must defeat ghosts he's spent years trying to bury... before they bury Bastion itself.n