The Traitor Son Cycle

Miles Cameron’s action-packed debut fantasy, The Red Knight, introduces a world where mercenary companies brave the deadly Wild for a price. Leading one such company is the Red Knight, a young, skilled commander blessed with noble birth, rigorous training, and a good deal of luck. His profession demands an exorbitant fee—twenty-eight florins a month—yet even that feels insufficient when facing wyverns and the smart, lethal creatures lurking beyond civilization. Driven by a keen desire for profit, the Red Knight accepts a seemingly straightforward assignment: protect a wealthy Abbess and her beautiful nuns from a monstrous threat. What begins as a routine job, however, quickly escalates beyond expectations, plunging him and his company into a full-scale war far more perilous than any they've encountered.

The second volume of The Traitor Son Cycle raises the stakes for the Red Knight and his mercenary company. When the Emperor is taken hostage, their services become suddenly indispensable—and their enemies multiply on every side. The country has erupted in revolt, the capital city is under siege, and the political landscape is as treacherous as the battlefield. Yet the Red Knight has a plan, and he intends to be victorious on every front: real, magical, political, and romantic alike.

Loyalty costs money. Betrayal, on the other hand, is free. The Fell Sword plunges the Red Knight into the kind of multi-layered conflict that defines The Traitor Son Cycle—where military genius, arcane power, and courtly intrigue are equally dangerous weapons. With the hard-won experience of his first campaign behind him, he must now navigate betrayal, siege warfare, and the supernatural demands of a world where the Wild and the world of men are forever at war.

The third entry in The Traitor Son Cycle opens not on a siege but on something far more dangerous for the Red Knight: a tournament. A joyous spring event draws the flower of the nobility to compete for royal favor and acclaim, and the Red Knight has the political and martial skill to win—but the stakes are far higher than he suspects. The court of Alba has been infiltrated by a warlike faction of knights loyal to Jean de Vrailly, acclaimed as the greatest knight in the world, and his prize is not royal favor but the throne of Alba itself.

The Red Knight has faced soldiers, armies, and the might of an empire without flinching, and has fought on magical and mundane battlefields alike. But a tournament demands a different kind of brilliance—one of performance, politics, and perception. The Dread Wyrm pits his wits against a rival whose ambitions could topple a kingdom, in a contest where a single misjudgment could cost everything.

In the fourth book of The Traitor Son Cycle, one enemy has fallen in a victory that will echo through the ages—but a greater threat remains, and now it is war on a continental scale. The Red Knight must marshal his allies across different lands and seas, each paired against a corresponding enemy in a sprawling, multi-front conflict. Every move carries catastrophic risk: one wrong throw of the dice and everything could be lost, including the lives of everyone who has followed him this far.

The Red Knight must also outthink an adversary whose true intentions remain hidden, gambling not just on military strategy but on his ability to read an opponent's deepest designs. The Plague of Swords forces him to team up with old enemies, testing the fragile alliances forged in fire and blood through the preceding campaigns. The culminating gamble of the book demands that he be right—not just brilliant—or face a defeat from which there may be no recovery.

The final volume of The Traitor Son Cycle brings its vast war to a shattering climax. The allied armies of the Wild and the Kingdoms of men and women must unite to face Ash for control of the gates to the hermetical universe—and for control of their own destinies. But exhaustion, treachery, and time may prove deadlier than any enemy. In Alba, Queen Desiderata struggles to rebuild a kingdom shattered by civil war even as the Autumn battles rage in the west.

In the Terra Antica, the Red Knight attempts to force his fractious and unwilling allies to finish off the Necromancer before they destroy each other. But as the last battle draws near, the Red Knight makes a horrifying discovery: all of this fighting may have happened before. The weight of history, the demands of the supernatural, and the fragility of human alliances collide in an epic finale that tests every character's courage, loyalty, and will to survive.