Regalia: Two Worlds: Book One - The Man Behind the Portrait (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798181251809)

They wrote songs about how he won. They left out how it cost him everything.

Two great empires have warred for generations, and the small kingdom of Aldmeron has always paid the price - sending its sons to die in wars that were never its own.

Rafael is one of those sons: a quiet young man with no taste for glory, who wants only to learn his trade and go home. But when a single act of treachery costs him his father and his brother in one stroke, he discovers he has been taught the one thing that can bring an empire to its knees - and that he is the only man alive willing to use it.

What follows is not a story of glorious victories. It is the story of a man who refused to fight the battle his enemies prepared for, and won the ones no one would ever sing about - by patience, by sacrifice, by the cold arithmetic of survival.

He will build an empire he never wanted. He will pay for it in everyone he loves. And in the moment of his triumph, a single black arrow will raise a question no one will ever be able to answer.

Begin the Regalia trilogy - epic fantasy of war, loyalty, and the brutal truth behind the legends.