Night Angel

From NYT bestselling author Brent Weeks comes the first novel in his breakout fantasy trilogy. In the perilous slums, guild rat Azoth lives a life of constant risk and precarious survival. He quickly learns to judge people, and when he apprentices himself to Durzo Blint, the city's most legendary and feared assassin, he takes the biggest gamble of his life.

Durzo Blint treats assassination as an art form, and he is its most accomplished master. To be accepted into this deadly world, Azoth must shed his old identity. Reborn as Kylar Stern, he must now navigate a dangerous realm of dark politics and strange magics. Kylar's new life demands he cultivate a deadly flair for death, mastering the skills taught by his lethal mentor, or perish.

Shadow's Edge is the second novel in Brent Weeks's Night Angel trilogy. Kylar Stern has walked away from the life of a wetboy—an assassin who commands Talent-enhanced killing—and is trying to build something new: a different city, new friendships, and a peaceful existence with his family. The Godking's brutal coup has already taken from him his master Durzo and his closest friend Logan, and Kylar intends to let the dead stay dead and leave the way of shadows behind for good.

Then comes news that Logan may be alive after all, surviving in the most hellish prison imaginable. The revelation forces Kylar to confront an agonizing choice: honor the peaceful life he has chosen and the family depending on him, or risk everything to attempt an almost certainly fatal rescue. Weeks uses this impossible dilemma to probe the costs of loyalty and identity at the heart of the trilogy, pulling Kylar back into a world of assassination and magic he thought he had escaped and building toward consequences that will shape the concluding volume.

Beyond the Shadows is the concluding volume of Brent Weeks's Night Angel trilogy. Logan Gyre has ascended to the throne of Cenaria, but the crown sits on a kingdom under siege: his army is threadbare, his options are dwindling, and the one gambit that might save him could equally destroy everything he has built. In the frozen north, the new Godking is executing a plan of his own—one that, if completed, will place power beyond anyone's ability to challenge.

For Kylar Stern, there is no longer any possibility of stepping back from the shadows. To save those he loves—and perhaps even those he has reason to hate—he must accomplish the logically impossible: assassinate a goddess. Weeks brings the trilogy to a sweeping close, delivering on the promises of sacrifice and consequence that have accumulated since the first book, and testing every bond of friendship, loyalty, and love that has defined Kylar's journey through a world where the price of power is always paid in blood.