TITLE: Cycle of Blades
AUTHOR: Christopher Keene
GENRE: Fantasy
BOOK BLURB: Faulk, a Tyrian soldier-turned-mercenary, is offered a chance to avenge his fallen commander when a fellow veteran teaches him the Lunari Ways: symbols that give the user various magical abilities.
When he discovers it was these same symbols that allowed an enemy general to rig the duel that took his commander's life, he is driven by a Lunari woman to search for their source—ancient gods of the secluded mountain people, the Lunari.