The Splintered Sun: The epic prequel to the groundbreaking fantasy The Dragonbone Chair by Sunday Times bestselling author

'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE FANTASY SERIES.' GEORGE R. R. MARTINBestselling Tad Williams delivers a thrilling new tale set in his legendary world of Osten Ard, set 300 years before the events of The Dragonbone Chair, book one of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. A fearless bandit and his band of misfit rebels navigate a kingdom menaced by dark sorcery and war in this fast-moving epic fantasy by an author who inspired a generation of fantasy authors, among them George R.R. Martin, Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, and Christopher Paolini. Vedra and Daley are fugitives, two children, one with a strange and powerful gift.When their flight ends in capture, they are claimed by Flann's Crows, Osten Ard's most infamous band of outlaws and the children must learn to survive or be swallowed whole. As whispers of a deadly plot coil around the throne of Hernystir, the Crows are drawn into a game far deadlier than bandit raids and border skirmishes.An immortal exile - ancient, dangerous, burdened