The Death of Chaos

The best-selling fantasy saga of Recluce began five years ago with the story of Lerris, the young magician, in The Magic of Recluce... Now Modesitt returns to take up the story of Lerris once again, in the biggest and most enthralling Recluce novel yet.

Lerris has settled down as a carpenter in Kyphros, where his wife, Krystal, is the sub-commander of the autarch's military forces. His fellow apprentice from Recluce, Tamra, now travels with the Gray Wizard Justen. Justen is over two hundred years old and is the wizard who destroyed the White Empire and the city of Fairhaven (as chronicled in The Order War), though as great cost.

But the whole world is in turmoil, not only from friction between the island of Recluce and the continent of Candar, but now the distant Empire of Hamor has sent invading forces across the ocean, as they have twice in the historic past – and this time they mean to conquer the world. Gradually, but ever more deeply, Lerris is drawn back into action and forced to exercise and strengthen his magical powers to become the greatest wizard of all time – or see his whole world destroyed.

The Death of Chaos is the culmination of the saga of Recluce thus far.