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Once they were a band of mercenaries who shook the pillars of the world through their cunning, their closely guarded alchemical brews and stone-cold steel. Whoever met their price won. Now, their glory days behind them and their genius leader in hiding, the warriors known as the Twenty are being hunted down and eliminated one by one. A lifetime of enemies has its own price.

The greatest empire of them all began with a road. The Circle - a thousand miles of perilous forests and warring clans. No one has ever tamed such treacherous territory before, but ex-soldier Teyr Amondsen, veteran of a hundred battles, is determined to try. With a merchant caravan protected by a crew of skilled mercenaries, Amondsen embarks on a dangerous mission to forge a road across the untamed wilderness that was once her home. But a warlord rises in the wilds of the Circle, uniting its clans and terrorising its people. Teyr's battles may not be over yet.... All roads lead back to war.

Sie wurden verehrt. Sie wurden gefürchtet. Sie wurden zur Legende: Kailens Zwanzig, die beste und verschworenste Söldnertruppe, die es je gab. Vor Jahren bewahrten sie die alten Königreiche vor dem Untergang, doch dann zerfiel die Gemeinschaft. Heute, fünfzehn Jahre später, scheint jemand eine alte Rechnung zu begleichen. Einer nach dem anderen werden Kailens Männer ermordet, bei den Toten liegt stets ein schwarzer Stein - unter Söldnern das Zeichen für Verrat.