Architects of the Grand Design Series by Michael J. Bode
Architects of the Grand Design #1
The Queen of Lies
Michael J. Bode
Maddox is a mage with dreams of immortality and a drinking problem. Heath is a faithless priest working as an assassin for hire, paired with a sentient sword. Jessa, the last daughter in a long line of Thrycean tyrants, is a timid young woman seeking to escape her domineering mother, Satryn. Rivern, the greatest city in the Protectorate, is a place of arcane magic and mechanical wonders that has stood for five hundred years as a bulwark against the tyrannical Stormlords of Thrycea. But Riven's strong foundation is beginning to crack. People are dying in their sleep, the dead are walking the streets, refugees are flooding the city, and a mysterious Harbinger has returned with dire omens that could mean the end of the Protectorate. Murder, magic and politics create a menacing tangle that the three must resolve before the Protectorate is crushed. But first they must save each other.
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Architects of the Grand Design #2
The Mirrored City
Michael J. Bode
Maddox is a broken man, held together by the will of his sentient sword. Heath is a prophet of a forgotten god- and an assassin. Jessa is an inexperienced ruler, struggling to broker a truce between her warring nation and her enemies.That plan for peace is threatened by the local politics of the Mirrored City, a place ruled by dual theocratic governments. Beneath the tenuous accord between the two halves of the city lies centuries of hostility that threaten to break out into open war. Treacherous negotiations, deadly diplomacy, a string of grisly murders, and the return of the Old Magic could spell the end for all Creation.No one is who or what they seem. A quest for answers leads the champions to a deadly battle with their greatest foe yet: themselves.
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