The Game of War: The Trials of Dantess, Warrior Priest (The Chronicles of Chaos)

❖ Readers' Favorite Gold Medalist
❖ First Place Winner, Dante Rossetti Award
❖ IAN Book of the Year Winner

Never meet your heroes. Especially if they're dead.

One such hero is Dantess' grandfather, a priest of War whose legend was born from a lifetime of glorious battles. Every day, fifteen-year-old Dantess trains to be just like his idol, hoping to join War's temple.

Only, his father sees the temple not as a hero's forge, but a grinder of idealistic souls like his son's. He forbids Dantess entry, but one rebellious act lands his father inside, a prisoner of the very god he despises.

Now Dantess faces a gut-wrenching choice: watch his father rot in War's dungeon, or become the monster his father fears—a priest whose extraordinary powers come from the God of War himself. Using those abilities in the temple's brutal arena, the Game of War, is the only path to freedom.

Dreams of glory curdle into a reality of blood and betrayal. Visions of his dead grandfather whisper dark secrets, twisting the priest's legacy into a web of lies. Can Dantess forge his own path or will his grandfather's hidden darkness claim him too?

If you like your epic young adult fantasy with a real edge, enter the Game of War, where Shadow and Bone meets the Game of Thrones in a heart-pounding battle for survival. Anyone craving action, magic, and a hero pushed to the brink should click "Buy Now" to begin the journey.

Here's what readers are saying:

★★★★★ "The Game of War is one hell of an action-packed thrill ride... It's a heartfelt origin story, a gut-wrenching coming of age, and an exceptional character-driven epic fantasy. I loved this book." —Cully Mack, Author of A Voice that Thunders

★★★★★ "The book is a true wonder whose fully-realized characters compel you to join its magical journey." —Lee Sheldon, award-winning writer of Star Trek: the Next Generation

★★★★★ "A superb fantasy novel. Any fantasy reader [will] completely submerge themselves in the pages just to break the surface, addicted, needing more." —Readers' Favorite Review

★★★★★ "A brilliantly executed prequel. The Game of War is a mighty tome that builds a solid foundation for the rest of the Chaos universe." —Indies Today Review

★★★★★ "[The Game of War] is an exciting and fast-paced story packed with extended sequences that would be right at home in a Steven Spielberg movie. At the end, I was left wanting more, much more." —Josh Mandel, Award-winning designer of Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

★★★★★ "A dark, immersive, and brand new take on a hero's journey. Dantess' story will keep you reading until the sun comes up!" —Lily Luchesi, USA Today Bestselling Author

★★★★★ "Glen Dahlgren has mastered the art of storytelling." —Jenni Clarke, Author of Colours of Rain

The Complete Chronicles of Chaos series

The critically-acclaimed designer behind Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" game, delivers a fantasy series hailed as "what fantasy fiction should be" (New York Times Bestselling author Piers Anthony).

Winner of the Reader's Favorite Gold Medal, the American Fiction award, and the IAN Best Book of the Year award, the Chronicles of Chaos is Epic YA Fantasy at its best.

★★★★★ "The Chronicles of Chaos is a superb fantasy series from a masterful storyteller who artfully sends relatable heroes into a war with the gods. A mythic, magical world not to be missed!"
—Cully Mack, author of A Voice that Thunders

★★★★★ "The Chronicles of Chaos is a series that grabs you from the start and doesn't let you go. The characters are great, the story is entertaining and twisty, and the world is unique."
—E. G. Stone, author of The Innocence of Death