The Ones Who Stayed: Book Two of the Fate of the Feywild Trilogy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798182171199)

Six seals hold the Feywild together. Five mortals carry them. The math was never going to work.

The realm is coming apart at the seams. Its ancient guardians sleep in distant, hostile planes - drowned, buried, burning - and the corruption that hollowed them is spreading toward the heart of everything that lives.

Five travelers have taken up the burden no one else would. A goliath who fights like a landslide. A ranger with a secret he carries closer than his blades. A warlock still mourning the magic that used to be his. A druid who has given up the ground beneath their feet. And a rogue who joined them chasing a mystery of her own - one that hasn't stopped following her.

They came to restore balance. What they keep discovering is how much it costs to stay - to hold a post until it hollows you out, to wait an age for someone who may never come, to do the hard thing quietly and answer for it later. Every guardian they wake has paid that price. So has the realm they're trying to save. So, increasingly, have they.

And something old is watching them cross the plains. Something that remembers when the Feywild was whole - and knows exactly how much was lost to make it so.

The second volume of the Fate of the Feywild trilogy - an epic of duty, sacrifice, and the small stubborn love that outlasts an age, born at a real tabletop and rendered in warm, sweeping prose for readers of David Eddings and Tad Williams.