EXILE’S VALOR – Alberich falls in love with another female Herald, Myste, and struggling to keep track of Valdemar’s enemies in his new position as Weaponsmaster. This book also tracks the early years of the very young, new queen of Valdemar, Selenay.
TAKE A THIEF – This book reveals the untold story of Skif, the popular character of Lackey’s first book, Arrows of the Queen. Skif is a homeless pickpocket until he is chosen to become a Herald for the queen. However, one day he returns to his new home where he is training to find that it has been burnt down and his comrades and mentor dead. He teams up with Alberich, the Weaponsmaster and protagonist from the EXILE books to take revenge on the criminal who killed his friends and becomes a hero of Valdemar.