A. H. Lee

Knights had come to Karkaroth's tower to collect the bounty on the necromancer for as long as Sairis had lived there. They'd come to win glory. Sairis had not been a child to them. He'd been a necromancer's apprentice—a monster to slay.

But they'd never won. No knight had ever gotten inside the tower. It remained a monument to his master's cunning and ingenuity—a man who was still much maligned in Mistala. Very few people knew or understood how Karkaroth had actually died, that he'd possibly saved the kingdom and certainly saved Sairis.

The tower was not for knights.