Book 2 · The Prophecy of Ruin, Book Two · The Prophecy of Ruin Saga
Cloak of Night
An Epic Fantasy of Shadow and Sacrifice
THE CITY SINGS FOR ITS HERO. ITS SAVIOUR WORKS IN THE DARK.
Calvestrin is celebrating. There are songs for the Knife of Veyr by morning, verses by noon. And under the aqueduct, in the dark, a man with burned hands is standing on the spark that would have killed them all. Caelen has spent a lifetime being erased. He helped build the erasing. Now the man who owns that system has turned it on a city: small fires, filed hinges, spoiled grain. Nothing that looks like war. Everything that teaches a city to fear itself, and to hang its own guardian gratefully. Aurelan can fight an army. He cannot fight a rumour. And the prophecy that bound the two men since their naming day is entering its final verse: Ruin requires the death of the Cloak. But the Cloak was never a man. It dies on the day the erasing fails.
416 pages · Perch Press
Book 2 of The Prophecy of Ruin Saga. The story continues in The Hollow Sky.
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M. A. Khan writes at the meeting point of ancient warning and modern consequence. A British author with a previous career at the sharp end of military and trauma medicine, he brings a surgeon's economy and a soldier's eye to stories that range from apocalyptic geopolitical thrillers to mythic dark fantasy. His books ask one recurring question: when the old stories said we were warned, what exactly were we supposed to do about it? He writes as M. A. Khan; his nonfiction appears under Mansoor Ali Khan. Published by Perch Press.