Swords of the Four Winds : Tales of Swords and Sorcery in an Ancient East That Never Was

The daughter of a serpent goddess and a king, exiled from her own temple, recruits the notorious pirate chief Pandara to bring her back ...Possessed wolves herd a band of pilgrims into a temple-city of the evil dead, but their masters have not reckoned with the feral fury of the Snow Leopard ... The pirate chieftain Pandara awakes from shipwreck on a haunted isle to find himself caught up in a deadly blood feud that time forgot ... The Snow Leopard, fighting as a mercenary captain, plots to steal an ancient conqueror's treasure from a besieged city, but the treasure is not what he expected ... A man-eating tiger, far more cunning than any cat has a right to be, stalks the snows of Drokpa Mountains, and Orhan Timur must hunt it down. The chase leads to a hidden city and a terrible secret ... Desperate villagers resort to dark rituals to gain the silver they need to buy their way out of conscription ... but the sacrifice they choose is under the protection of Arios the Spearman!Swords of the Four Winds delivers rousing sword and sorcery adventures in the classic vein, rife with cruel schemes, betrayals, grisly magic, and swift, savage swordplay, all set in an ancient East that never was.