ADULT NOVELThe True Bloods are in disarray their alliance crumbling and their armies humbled by the forces of the Black Road. Aeglyss falling ever deeper into madness casts a shadow across all. At the court of the High Thane Anyara faces a savage struggle for survival against the nakyrims possessed agent: Mordyn Jerain the Shadowhand. In the Glas Valley Kanin the embittered Horin-Gyre Thane plots a desperate rising against the halfbreed. But ultimately it will be Orisian Thane of a Blood that no longer exists who must stand face to face with a darkly transcendent Aeglyss and make the sacrifice - of himself and others - required to end the threat he represents. FALL OF THANES is the spectacular conclusion to the Godless World trilogy a sweeping epic of war politics and empire.