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The Game of War


A Young Adult Fantasy Novel


Book 1 of the The Chronicles of Chaos Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Epic Fantasy,
  • Gods and Mortals,
  • Battle Arena,
  • Reluctant Hero,
  • Dead Grandparent Visions
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Arena battles where magic is both weapon and curse
  • Family legacies that hide dangerous secrets
  • Visions from the dead that twist everything you believe
Publisher Description

Never meet your heroes. Especially if they're dead.

One such hero is Dantess' grandfather, a priest of War whose legend was born from a lifetime of glorious battles. Every day, fifteen-year-old Dantess trains to be just like his idol, hoping to join War's temple.

Only, his father sees the temple not as a hero's forge, but a grinder of idealistic souls like his son's. He forbids Dantess entry, but one rebellious act lands his father inside, a prisoner of the very god he despises.

Now Dantess faces a gut-wrenching choice: watch his father rot in War's dungeon, or become the monster his father fears—a priest whose extraordinary powers come from the God of War himself. Using those abilities in the temple's brutal arena, the Game of War, is the only path to freedom.

Dreams of glory curdle into a reality of blood and betrayal. Visions of his dead grandfather whisper dark secrets, twisting the priest's legacy into a web of lies. Can Dantess forge his own path or will his grandfather's hidden darkness claim him too?

If you like your epic young adult fantasy with a real edge, enter the Game of War, where Shadow and Bone meets the Game of Thrones in a heart-pounding battle for survival. Anyone craving action, magic, and a hero pushed to the brink should click 'Buy Now' to begin the journey.

The Complete Chronicles of Chaos series. The critically-acclaimed designer behind Robert Jordan's 'The Wheel of Time' game, delivers a fantasy series hailed as 'what fantasy fiction should be' (New York Times Bestselling author Piers Anthony). Winner of the Reader's Favorite Gold Medal, the American Fiction award, and the IAN Best Book of the Year award, the Chronicles of Chaos is Epic YA Fantasy at its best.

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