The Monarchies of God

The Western world is burning, its cities and cathedrals crumbling as the invading Merduks crucify their defenders. Compounding this external threat, the Faithful ignite their own civil war, ruthlessly purging heretics and magical folk, fueling the inferno with the Inceptines' pyres. For Richard Hawkwood and his crew, the only hope of escape from this twin devastation lies in a desperate venture. They embark on a perilous voyage, carrying refugees across the vast, uncharted Great Western Ocean. Their destination: a fabled, unspoiled land, detailed in an ancient log book held by the King's cousin, Lord Murad. This journey is their last chance for salvation.

A Royal Rebellion ignites when the power-mad pontiff Himerius instigates a cruel purge, demanding foreigners and magicians be put to death. Three of the five Ramusian Kings – Lofantyr, Abeleyn, and Mark – bravely defy this decree, refusing to abandon their people. Their defiance plunges the realm into a brutal struggle as they fight to hold their thrones through excommunication, widespread intrigue, and civil war. Meanwhile, in the quiet monastery city of Charibon, two humble monks make a momentous discovery. This revelation holds the power to utterly change their entire world.

The Iron Wars is the third volume of Paul Kearney's Monarchies of God series, and it arrives at a moment of maximum upheaval. King Abeleyn of Hebrion has been struck down at the very moment of triumph and now lies in a coma, leaving his ruined city without clear leadership while his fiancée and a former lover struggle for the throne. Meanwhile, Colonel Corfe Cear-Inaf is handed a deliberately impossible assignment: command a band of ill-equipped outcasts on a mission his own king expects will kill him.

The chaos deepens when Richard Hawkwood and Lord Murad return from a savage new continent carrying news of horrors they witnessed there—and they have not returned alone. Something unknown and terrible lurks in the hold of their vessel. Kearney weaves together political collapse, military desperation, and encroaching supernatural dread into a relentlessly paced instalment that raises the stakes across every corner of the Monarchies of God world, testing the limits of loyalty, survival, and ambition under conditions of total war.

The Time of the Wolf is at hand as chaos engulfs the realm. Young King Abeleyn lies in a coma, his city in ruins and his succession disputed by his fiancée and former lover. Colonel Corfe Cear-Inaf is dispatched on a seemingly hopeless mission with a ragtag army, a pawn in a jealous king's scheme. Meanwhile, Richard Hawkwood and Lord Murad return from a savage new continent, bringing terrifying news and an unknown horror hidden in their ship's hold. The Church faces internal strife, torn between Ramusian and Merduk factions, even as a formidable new threat emerges from the far West. The Century of the Soldier collects the final three explosive books in Paul Kearney's The Monarchies of God series: 'The Iron Wars', 'The Second Empire', and 'Ships From The West'.