The Sword and the Sorcerer (The Usurpers Saga Book 1)

He wanted his father's love. What he got instead will change the world.
Gothemus Draco -- world's most powerful sorcerer -- is dead. Locked away in his tower are the tools for total domination of every city-state in the Known World. The person who possesses them can become a king, and everyone wants to try -- his warlord brother, the fairy from whom he stole a powerful artifact, even the sorceress who murdered him.

But he's bequeathed the key to it all to his son Calibot . . . who doesn't want it. A poet with a powerful patron, Calibot wants nothing to do with the father from whom he was estranged.

Calibot has no choice, though. With only the aid of the man he loves and his father's inept apprentice, he must leave the safety of his life at court and venture to the stronghold of those who murdered Gothemus, retrieve the body, and return it to his tower. Everyone with a stake in the future of the Known World will try to stop him, and Calibot must take care he doesn't lose his life . . . or his soul!

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