The Swordsman Returns 4 is up!
The Swordsman Returns, Book 4 Is Out Now!
The fourth book in The Swordsman Returns series by Andrei Tkachev and Oliver Law is now available!
Darion Thorn spent a hundred years fighting demons before finally finding his way back home. Unfortunately, “home” turned out to be very different from the place he remembered.
The world had changed. Rifts, monsters, Hunters, powerful clans, and the Hunters’ Guild had reshaped society while he was gone. But some things remained reassuringly familiar: there were still enemies to fight, people worth protecting, and plenty of trouble for a swordsman who had already survived far worse.
Over the course of the first three books, Darion recovered his strength, made new allies, explored dangerous Rifts, and gradually built something he hadn’t expected to find after his return: a place for himself in this strange new world. He now has friends, students, allies, and Last Stand—a group of people he can finally call his own.
Naturally, this is when everything falls apart.
Rivers may have lost some important pieces in his game against Darion, but he’s still out there—and now Darion and his companions have been branded criminals. Last Stand is treated as a terrorist organization, the authorities are hunting them, and hiding would seem like the sensible thing to do.
There’s just one problem: Darion Thorn has never been particularly interested in doing the sensible thing.
If Rivers expects a century of fighting demons to have taught Darion how to run away, he’s about to be disappointed.
Book 4 raises the stakes with assaults, old and new allies, a dangerous high-ranking Rift, and an enemy who has studied Darion’s sword techniques closely enough to believe he can not only imitate them, but surpass their creator. While Darion’s friends wrestle with politics, intrigue, evidence, and public opinion, Darion himself prefers a much more straightforward approach: find the people responsible and make sure they understand exactly where they went wrong.
But the conflict is becoming bigger than a feud between powerful men. Behind the ambitions, conspiracies, and struggle for control, something much older—and much more dangerous—is beginning to emerge.
Darion survived a hundred years in a world of demons.
Now his own world is about to find out what that experience taught him.
The Swordsman Returns, Book 4 by Andrei Tkachev and Oliver Law is out now.
When the Empire declares you its enemy, there’s only one question left: who should really be afraid of whom?
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