Bleak Seasons

Murgen, standardbearer and Annalist of the Black Company, still carries the emotional wreckage of the Siege of Dejagore — a bloody schism that split the Company between his own "Old Crew" and the Nar faction led by the treacherous Mogaba. Years later, seizures tear his spirit loose from his body and from time itself, forcing him to relive the siege's horrors even as the present unfolds in parallel.

Running concurrently with events already told from Lady's perspective in Dreams of Steel, Bleak Seasons follows the Company's uneasy alliance with the Nyueng Bao pilgrims, rising tensions with the Radisha's rule in Taglios, and the ever-present menace of Soulcatcher and the Howler. Glen Cook opens the Books of Glittering Stone tetralogy with a fractured, time-skipping account of one company's endless war.