num_pages: 390
description: The first book in JJ Sherwood's Steps of Power epic fantasy series. The Kings Book I: Kings or Pawns is a political intrigue that spirals into an action and adventure series as the final events unfold. 8994 P.E.The elven city of Elvorium has become corrupted to the core by politics. With his father dead and the Royal Schism at his back Prince Hairem ascends the throne as king of the elven world on Sevrigel. Young and bold Hairem is determined to undo the councils power but the brutal murders by an assassin loosed within the city threaten to undermine the kings ambitions. As corruption and death threaten to tear Elvorium apart from within the warlord Saebellus threatens the city from without laying siege to Sevrigels eastern capital. With the elven world crumbling around him Hairem finds himself in a dangerous political balance between peace and all out war.
language: None
title: Kings or Pawns
publisher: Silver Helm