Shadows in the Moonlight

The moon rises over a forgotten island, and something ancient stirs in the ruins. Conan the Cimmerian has killed his way to freedom, but freedom is a fragile thing when you're stranded in the Vilayet Sea with a woman who was once a prince's captive and a pack of pirates hunting you down. Olivia expected death at the hands of Shah Amurath. She found instead a barbarian with ice-blue eyes and a sword that tastes blood like wine. Now they sail for a supposedly empty island, but the island has teeth, and something is waiting for them in the moonlight. Something that remembers when this place was a city, when people walked these streets, when a curse was sealed away and forgotten. Howard writes combat the way a blacksmith forges steel: every blow lands with weight, every death leaves a mark. This is sword and sorcery at its most primal, where civilization is a thin veneer and survival means becoming something more than human. Olivia will discover that the line between barbarism and heroism is drawn in blood, and that sometimes the only safety in a cruel world is the shadow of a man who fears nothing.