The Prince of Luster and Decay

In war, men don't only fight the enemy...

Sergeant Knox leads the Head Knockers, scout-saboteurs in the war against the Dread Duke and his armies. They are the favorite squad of Captain Brighton's Stormwalkers. Until an ambush kills Brighton and half the company.

Now the new Captain has new orders.

He's sending the Head Knockers to investigate a seemingly abandoned village.  Its streets and houses are empty and the air is eerily quiet. But something waits for them there in the darkness. 

And they'll need both steel and heart to defeat it.

A novella of sword and soldiery that combines the fantasy warfare of Glen Cook's Black Company with a fearsome touch of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. And a prequel of the epic fantasy novel Tarnish: The Thunderstrike Saga.