The Fracture of Shackles

When forced in a war that isn't his, how can an enslaved nobleman combine honour and survival? Captured by pirates at sea, Valirian, a young nobleman from the kingdom of Vinmara, is sold into slavery to the empire of Koresh, his people's sworn enemy. He comes into the service of Alexar, a powerful and influential Koreshian general, whose designs for the young man are as obscure as they are an ill omen. But war is near, for the Emperor of Koresh, a centuries-old and powerful sorcerer named Tarasm