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The Shadow Campaigns Series

Immerse yourself in a gripping saga where the brutal realities of imperial warfare collide with the arcane powers of dark magic. This series follows the journeys of soldiers and commanders on distant frontiers, battling for survival against both visible enemies and insidious supernatural forces. It's a narrative of courage, loyalty, and ambition, exploring how the lines between good and evil blur when ancient powers threaten to reshape the known world. Prepare for epic conflicts, strategic maneuvers, and a deep dive into the morally gray areas of war.

The Infernal Battalion
Guns of Empire
The Price of Valor
The Shadow Throne
The Shadow Campaigns - 1: The Thousand Names. Die Tausend Namen, Englische Ausgabe

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  1. 1

    The Shadow Campaigns - 1: The Thousand Names. Die Tausend Namen, Englische Ausgabe

    • 624 pages
    • 22 hours of reading
    4.2(137)Add rating

    Set in an alternate nineteenth century, muskets and magic are weapons to be feared in the first “spectacular epic” (Fantasy Book Critic) in Django Wexler’s Shadow Campaigns series. Captain Marcus d’Ivoire, commander of one of the Vordanai empire’s colonial garrisons, was serving out his days in a sleepy, remote outpost—until a rebellion left him in charge of a demoralized force clinging to a small fortress at the edge of the desert. To flee from her past, Winter Ihernglass masqueraded as a man and enlisted as a ranker in the Vordanai Colonials, hoping only to avoid notice. But when chance sees her promoted to command, she must lead her men into battle against impossible odds. Their fate depends on Colonel Janus bet Vhalnich. Under his command, Marcus and Winter feel the tide turning and their allegiance being tested. For Janus’s ambitions extend beyond the battlefield and into the realm of the supernatural—a realm with the power to reshape the known world and change the lives of everyone in its path.

    The Shadow Campaigns - 1: The Thousand Names. Die Tausend Namen, Englische Ausgabe
  2. 2

    The Shadow Throne

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    The King of Vordan is dying, and his daughter, Raesinia, is destined to become the first Queen in centuries. But politics knows no loyalties, especially for Duke Orlanko, Minister of Information and spymaster of the empire. The most feared man in the Vordan will bow his knee to no Queen, unless she is firmly under his influence. Freshly returned from their recent victories in the colonies, Colonel Janus, Marcus and Winter must play a new and far deadlier game than the open warfare of the front, using all their talents, earthly or supernatural.

    The Shadow Throne
  3. 3

    The Price of Valor

    • 656 pages
    • 23 hours of reading
    4.3(189)Add rating

    In the third Shadow Campaigns novel, Django Wexler continues his “epic fantasy of military might and magical conflict,” (Library Journal) following The Shadow Throne and The Thousand Names. After the king’s death, war has come to Vordan. The Deputies-General, led by a traitor-seeking zealot, has taken control. Queen Raesinia Orboan is nearly powerless as the government tightens its grip and assassins threaten her life. Unwilling to see the country come under another tyranny, she sets out to turn the tide of history. As the Sworn Church brings the powers of the continent to war against Vordan, General Janus bet Vhalnich offers a path to victory. Winter Ihernglass, newly promoted to command a regiment, has reunited with her lover and her friends only to face the prospect of leading them into bloody battle. And the enemy is not just armed with muskets and cannon. Dark priests of an ancient order, wielding forbidden magic, have infiltrated Vordan to stop Janus by whatever means necessary...

    The Price of Valor
  4. 4

    Guns of Empire

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    The fourth book in Django Wexler's The Shadow Campaigns The weather is growing warmer, but the frosty threat of Vordan's enemies is only growing worse...

    Guns of Empire
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    The Infernal Battalion

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    The Beast, imprisoned beneath the fortress-city of Elysium for a thousand years, has been loosed upon the world. Military might and arcane power clash in the conclusion to the Shadow Campaigns.

    The Infernal Battalion