The stunning standard edition of Starside, with illustrated endpapers, a special hardcover case design and jacket effects.

Enter the enchanting and deadly world of Starside, where swords have magic and power isn’t inherited it’s claimed.

Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two. Starside is the realm of magic and immortals the descendants of the gods, living in a power-rich paradise. Stormside is where mortals fight for scraps of that magic.

Every fifty years, the gates between them open, and fifty challengers are allowed to journey across Starside on a deadly quest for magic that can heal, grant wealth or extend life. Everyone has their reasons for entering, but Aris has only one: vengeance against the gods who killed her family.

Winning one of the fifty spots on the quest won’t be easy. An orphaned blacksmith’s apprentice, Aris doesn’t have the superior weapons of the heirs from the Great Hou