King's Fall: Moryan Chronicles Book 1

The Kali Yuga has already begun. It is 327 BCE. The reviled emperor Mahendra Nanda treacherously invades one of the last free kingdoms of Jambu Morya after assassinating their king under a banner of peace. Arjuna, the crown prince of Morya, retaliates by invading the Magadhan capital of Pataliputra and executing the emperor in his own palace; but his vengeance bring to light a dark secret. The empire itself is servant to a greater power, a power that few even know to exist the Temple of Sorcery, Dandakaranya. Furious at this betrayal, Arjuna rides to Dandakaranya, where his younger brother, Karna, is being trained in the dark arts of sorcery; but worse is yet to come. An asura a demon from the legends has begun to terrorize the villages of Jambu, declaring itself to be the retribution of the Kali Yuga; and in the northwest, a warlord named Sikandar has invaded Jambu, declaring himself to be the Emperor of the World . An alternate history of India weaving together myth, magic and (fragments of) history, King s Fall is the first of three novels telling the story of the rise of the Mauryan Empire.