Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive sequence began in 2010 with the New

York Times bestseller The Way of Kings. Now, the eagerly anticipated Words of

Radiance continues the epic story and answers many of your questions.Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable Parshendi,

assassinated the Alethi king on the very night a treaty between men and

Parshendi was being celebrated. So began the Vengeance Pact among the

highprinces of Alethkar and the War of Reckoning against the Parshendi.Now the Assassin is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of

Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all

pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered

the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem

reason enough, but the Assassin’s master has much deeper motives.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave,

Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a

controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the

king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly

uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master

remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite

being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible

burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and

the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs

can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more

difficult than she could have imagined.Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making

an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their

numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai,

to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces

they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike,

indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.The doors of the Stormlight Archive first opened to us with The Way of

Kings. Read that book – now available in all formats – and then Words of

Radiance, and you can be part of the adventure every dazzling step of the

way.

Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive sequence began in 2010 with the New

York Times bestseller The Way of Kings. Now, the eagerly anticipated Words of

Radiance continues the epic story and answers many of your questions.Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable Parshendi,

assassinated the Alethi king on the very night a treaty between men and

Parshendi was being celebrated. So began the Vengeance Pact among the

highprinces of Alethkar and the War of Reckoning against the Parshendi.Now the Assassin is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of

Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all

pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered

the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem

reason enough, but the Assassin’s master has much deeper motives.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave,

Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a

controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the

king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly

uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master

remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite

being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible

burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and

the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs

can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more

difficult than she could have imagined.Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making

an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their

numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai,

to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces

they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike,

indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.The doors of the Stormlight Archive first opened to us with The Way of

Kings. Read that book – now available in all formats – and then Words of

Radiance, and you can be part of the adventure every dazzling step of the

way.

The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler - the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years - has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves. As Kelsier's protégé and slayer of the Lord Ruler she is now venerated by a budding new religion, a distinction that makes her intensely uncomfortable. Even more worrying, the mists have begun behaving strangely since the Lord Ruler died, and seem to harbor a strange vaporous entity that haunts her.Stopping assassins may keep Vin's Mistborn skills sharp, but it's the least of her problems. Luthadel, the largest city of the former empire, doesn't run itself, and Vin and the other members of Kelsier's crew, who lead the revolution, must learn a whole new set of practical and political skills to help. It certainly won't get easier with three armies - one of them composed of ferocious giants - now vying to conquer the city, and no sign of the Lord Ruler's hidden cache of atium, the rarest and most powerful allomantic metal. As the siege of Luthadel tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows.