Shadow Rising

Power has a price . . . and Kirin doesn't want to pay it. He did his duty and saved the Kingdom of Silbar from a bloody civil war. Now he just wants to rejoin his acrobat family and refuse to use the dark power growing inside him. But a ruthless Druid and her pet torturer have their eyes on his family and friends for grim purposes. And the Temple Inquisition threatens to put him on trial for his life - a trial he can't possibly win. As the body count rises, he has to walk a rapidly-narrowing path. He can abandon all that he loves - or live the rest of his days in a trap more fearsome than any prison . . .