The Far Watch

The war is won. The north is quiet. Captain Arder Tur Cide has a frontier to hold and a village to make into a fortress, and for one spring he lets himself believe the worst is behind him.

Then the holdings begin to empty. Whole farms gone between one morning and the next, and a baroness's patrol rides into something in the empty north that should not be there at all.

Arder takes six riders into the unmapped north, over a pass no southern chart has ever marked, and finds a kingdom that has st...