A Silence of Swords

Brenna Solvik carries the last relic that can hold back a tide of magical corruption consuming an entire continent—and she wants nothing to do with it. A deserter from the fallen Shieldmaidens of Auroch Keep, she's bound for the coast and a ship to anywhere else. But a caravan of dying children and an old surgeon's desperate plea force her hand. Now she must cross a hundred miles of crystallized wasteland, hunted by the very commander who unleashed the catastrophe, with a fading relic, a body slowly turning to glass, and no room left for cowardice.