Publisher's Synopsis
The Aurealis Award-winning e-book bestseller now in print. An epic fantasy reminiscent of Brent Weeks, Peter V Brett and Patrick Rothfuss, A CRUCIBLE OF SOULS was the first self-published novel to win the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. When Caldan's parents are brutally slain, he is raised by monks and taught the arcane mysteries of sorcery. Vowing to discover for himself who his parents really were, and what led to their violent end, he is thrust into the unfamiliar chaos of city life in dirty, grimy, heaving Anasoma. With nothing to his name but a pair of mysterious heirlooms and a handful of coins, he must prove his talent to earn an apprenticeship with a guild of sorcerers. But he soon learns the world outside the monastery is a darker place than he ever imagined, and his treasured sorcery has disturbing depths. As a shadowed evil manipulates the unwary and forbidden powers are unleashed, Caldan is plunged into an age-old conflict that brings the world to the edge of destruction ...
