The Radiant Tomb
The Sequel to Curse of the Onyx Heart!
Three years ago, after a disastrous confession of love to her best friend, Kit Albain fled the halfling farming village of Greenbarrow under cover of darkness and vowed never to return. Since then, she has built a new life in the city of Bright Harbor, earning a reputation as a master thief and becoming something of a local folk hero.
Now, trouble has come to Greenbarrow.
Someone has kidnapped the village’s children, and its people are desperate for help. Recruited by the Skyborn enforcer Shixara, who makes a living solving problems for the helpless, Kit must decide whether she is brave enough to return home and face the humiliation she left behind. She recruits her friends Ethan and Tilii, who owe her a favor, along with Holo, a dwarf changeling with reasons of his own to join the journey.
Kit has reasons to go back. She also knows there is no guarantee any of them will return.
Ethan Brade is more than willing to lend his sword to the cause. But as the group travels toward Greenbarrow, a strange magic begins calling to him. Could it hold the first clue to the identity of the elven mother he has never known? Or is someone laying a trap meant specifically for him?
And if so, why?
Tilii Eldarion has told no one but his master that his magic has been broken since he destroyed the Onyx Heart and ended last autumn’s crisis. He has come to help however he can, even as his friends continue to count on powers he no longer possesses. But sooner or later, Tilii will have to tell them the truth.
And if his magic is truly gone, he must discover whether simply being Tilii can ever be enough.
In Greenbarrow, they uncover a mystery far more dangerous than a simple kidnapping and traces of a dark magic that lead deep into the caverns beneath the foothills. There they will face rogue mages, an army of orcs, and an assassin who can manipulate the very substance of shadow itself.
To rescue Greenbarrow’s children, they will have to survive them all.
And uncover a secret powerful enough to shake the world.
The Radiant Tomb is a sweeping tale of adventure, friendship, danger, and romance, and the second book in The Circle and the Shadow, an epic sword-and-sorcery series.