THE SWORD WAS NEVER HIDDEN.
The Sword of Light was never hidden. It was distributed - five
keepings, five traditions, five coasts - so that no single king could
ever wield it alone.
Now something has spent an age of the world arranging for them to
come back together, into one man's hand. Seán Devlin has closed the
doors of Ireland against the dark. This time the dark has laid a
subtler trap.
For a sword that exists must be drawn - and the whole art of a
king, it turns out, is learning the hour not to draw it.
The second book of the Devlin Trilogy: a mythic military fantasy of
Irish legend, sovereign power, and the quiet work of holding the
world together.
"Don't lose the hand. But learn the hour not to draw it."