In The Unwritten Words, Christopher Nuttall’s story-telling mastery weaves a fresh epic which follows on from his bestselling Bookworm series and is set for the reason that same world. In The Promised Lay, the first book of the brand new series, five years have passed because the earth-shattering occasions of Bookworm IV.

The Golden Town has fallen. The Grand Sorcerer and Court Wizards are lifeless. The Empire they ruled is certainly only a memory, a golden age dropped in the civil wars as kings and princes battle for supremacy. In support of a small number of trained magicians stay alive.

Isabella Majuro, Woman Sorceress, is bit more than a mercenary, fighting with each other for money within a eager bid to flee her past. But when Prince Reginald of Andalusia plots the invasion of the Summer Isle, Isabella discovers herself dragged right into a war against strange magics from before .

. . . And a historical secret that may spell the finish of the human race.