After being banished from their mountaintop home and forced to survive in the terrifying blighted lands far below, Tiberius and his friends find themselves once again returning home. No one has ever gone into the blighted lands and returned to tell the tale, but everything is changing in the kingdom of Valana. In the fortress capital, the new king is using dark magic to shore up his claim to the throne and control the earls of the nine cities. Only Tiberius' father, Earl Ageus who was too ill to leave Avondale, escaped the new king's enslavement. Now, Tiberius must return to his father's palace and choose whether he will reveal his new found power to save his father, or stay hidden in the shadows.
The return to Avondale will challenge each of Tiberius' friends in a unique way. Rafe must face his father, the vaunted sword master of Valana, but will Grentz accept his son's return? Olyva has changed during her time in the blighted lands, but will her new abilities help or hurt her reception in the city she was banished from? And Lexi will play a pivotal roll in the group's homecoming, but as she returns to the lower levels of Avondale, where only the corrupt survive, will she find friends or foes?
Arcanius is the fourth book in the Avondale series, an epic fantasy adventure that spans the kingdom of Valana that was nearly laid to waste by a cataclysmic wizard's war. Magic has stirred again in Valana, even though it was outlawed throughout the kingdom after the cataclysm and all traces of magical knowledge were almost destroyed in the purge that followed. But for Tiberius and his friends, discovering the secrets of the ancients wizards isn't just important, it is the difference between life and death. Jump back into the action and adventure of the Avondale series. This pulse pounding novel will keep you on the edge of your seat with electrifying action and all the characters you love.