Incursion by Mitchell Hogan

Incursion by Mitchell Hogan

An immersive and ambitious new series from the Aurealis Award-winning author of A Crucible of Souls.

A corrupted power stirs from beyond the grave.
A sacred order of knights sworn to protect the world from evil.
The Necromancer Queen will rise again.

Seventeen years have passed since the Necromancer Queen Talia was overthrown and slain, and her capital city destroyed by the Knights of the Order of Eternal Vigilance.

Anskar DeVantte, raised in the sacred disciplines of the Order, is now ready to face the brutal initiation trials to become a consecrated knight-sorcerer.

But the further Anskar rises in the ranks the more his faith wavers, and he is beset by harrowing dreams and uncertainty. As troubling powers awaken within him, a schism grows between Anskar and his hallowed Order, and he draws the hungry gaze of the vanquished queen's fanatical followers.

As Anskar pieces together the mysteries of his early life, and begins to understand the malevolent forces gathering in his path, he finds himself with a crucial choice to make: Remain loyal to the Order's righteous mission, or control the dark powers growing within him.

Either way, his destiny is steeped in war. The only question is, which side will he be on?

Mitchell Hogan's love of fantasy novels began when he received The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy as gifts when he was eleven years old. With some school and university thrown in, he spent the following ten years reading, rolling dice, and playing computer games. He's amassed many bookshelves' worth of fantasy and science fiction novels along the road, and he has no plans to quit anytime soon. He put off his dream of writing for ten years before quitting his work and writing A Crucible of Souls. He now works full-time as a writer and is immensely thankful to the readers who trusted an unknown self-published author. His wife, Angela, and daughters, Isabelle and Charlotte, live in Sydney, Australia.