Blood of Innocents by Mitchell Hogan

Blood of Innocents by Mitchell Hogan

A novice sorcerer may hold the key to saving his world--or be the instrument of its destruction--in Mitchell Hogan's Blood of Innocents, the second book in The Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, a mesmerizing saga of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery.

Anasoma, jewel of the Mahruse Empire, has fallen.

As orphaned, monk-raised Caldan and his companions flee the city, leaving behind their hopes for a new beginning, horrors from the time of the Shattering begin to close in.

With Miranda's mind broken by forbidden sorcery, Caldan does the unthinkable to save her: he breaks the most sacrosanct laws of the Protectors. But when the emperor's warlocks arrive to capture him, Caldan realizes that his burgeoning powers may be more of a curse than a blessing, and the enemies assailing the empire may be rivaled by more sinister forces within.

And soon, the blood of innocents may be on Caldan's own hands.

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.