Volume 1.

A sword-and-sorcery tale set in Valdemar where Charles-the-Immortal, emperor of the Eastern Empire, is waging a war of conquest against the West. With the latest offensive stalled at Hardorn, he dispatches the Grand Duke Tremane who sweeps the land with storms. By the author of The Black Gryphon.

Mysterious Mage storms are wreaking havoc on Valdemar and all the kingdoms of the West.

As Storm Breaking opens, the western allies, led by Karal, Karsite Sunpriest and delegate to the Valdemaran Court, and the Adepts Firesong and An'desha, have traveled deep into the Dorisha Plains to locate the ancient ruins of the Tower of Urtho, Mage of Silence, creator of the gryphons. Legend has it that below the Tower, deeply buried beneath the plains, is Urtho's Vault, hidden stronghold of some of the most powerful magical weapons ever devised...

Darian, now a powerful Healing Adept, searches the unknown north to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance.

At a time when Darkover is split into warring kingdoms, Corin Leynier, on the cusp of developing his laran powers, becomes a pawn in a plot to bring the entire world under the rule of one king.

Marina is the cherished daughter of the wealthy Saverson family, practioners of Elemental Magic. But all is not well in this elegant, aristocratic household. Evil portents have warned her father that Marina will be killed before her eighteenth birthday-by the hand of her own aunt. And no one is sure if the family magic is powerful enough to overturn the prophesy.

Liath, burdened with the knowledge that a cataclysmic event is approaching, finds her way back to Sanglant after four years, while Alain's life is in the hands of the Eika leader Stronghand, who saves him from a terrible fate.