Eclipse of the Crown

Damien and Amma arrive in Yvlcon, the gathering place of the worst villains alive. Damien is back among his own kind, and the habit he has been building of being slightly less evil starts to slip.

Amma has her own trouble. Temptation is everywhere in Yvlcon, and it takes the form of a domineering blood mage she either cannot or does not want to refuse. A romance begins to take shape between them.

Then the Grand Order of Dread orders Damien to face the swirling vortex of entropy again, the force that has pursued the pair across the realm. A coming eclipse is foretold to bring devastation, and the prophecy leaves little room for escape.

This is a fantasy with a dark, comic streak, and its villains are the heroes. The wry tone treats doom lightly even as the stakes climb.

The world is due to end in a fortnight. Damien and Amma have that long to find a loophole in the prophecy, or at least to tell each other how they feel before everything burns.