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Read the First 11 Chapters of Jenn Lyons’ The Ruin of Kings

Read the First 11 Chapters of Jenn Lyons’ The Ruin of Kings

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Read the First 11 Chapters of Jenn Lyons’ The Ruin of Kings

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Published on December 26, 2018

Debut author Jenn Lyons has created one of the funniest, most engrossing new epic fantasy novels of the 21st century in The Ruin of Kings—an eyebrow-raising cross between the intricacy of Brandon Sanderson’s worldbuilding and the snark of Patrick Rothfuss.

The book publishes February 5th, but you can start reading right now! The prologue plus chapters 1-11 are available below, and we’ll be running additional excerpts here every Tuesday until the publication date. What are you waiting for?!

When destiny calls, there’s no fighting back.

Kihrin grew up in the slums of Quur, a thief and a minstrel’s son raised on tales of long-lost princes and magnificent quests. When he is claimed against his will as the missing son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds himself at the mercy of his new family’s ruthless power plays and political ambitions.

Practically a prisoner, Kihrin discovers that being a long-lost prince is nothing like what the storybooks promised. The storybooks have lied about a lot of other things, too: dragons, demons, gods, prophecies, and how the hero always wins.

Then again, maybe he isn’t the hero after all. For Kihrin is not destined to save the world.

He’s destined to destroy it.

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Prelude: A Dialog Between a Jailer and Her Prisoner
Chapter 1: The Slave Auction


Chapter 2: The Kazivar House


Chapter 3: The Black Brotherhood


Chapter 4: Butterbelly


Chapter 5: Leaving Kishna-Farriga


Chapter 6: The Rook’s Father


Chapter 7: The Misery
Chapter 8: The Angel’s Bargain


Chapter 9: Souls and Stones


Chapter 10: Demon in the Streets
Chapter 11: The Coming Storm

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