The Glass Immortals series #1
From Brian McClellan, author of The Powder Mage trilogy, comes the first novel in The Glass Immortals series, In the Shadow of Lightning, an epic fantasy where magic is a finite resource – and it’s running out.
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Twelve year-old Montego al'Bou is an orphan, a provincial peasant boy left alone by the recent death of his grandmother. Possessing nothing more than his grandmother's cudgel, he strikes out to the capital where the influential Grappo have offered...