This Strange Magic

The king of Carvel and the sultan of Ardual join forces against Mistrin, but the sultan's true motive is avarice: he covets the wizard Andrin Sethuel. The Mistrin necromancer's enchantment is poised to entice the empire's heir into slaying his father, freeing the sorceress to rule from behind the throne as she plots vengeance against her enemies. Knowing she can never have the Rondural, the necromancer is determined to destroy it, along with everyone in Torvia, and she summons an army of the dead to fight the last battle against the kingdom. This strange magic threatens to devastate the world and tear Andrin, Rift, and the Rondural apart, and it may force Andrin to obliterate the Rondural—and therefore himself.