By Christie Golden
The authentic prequel novel to the Xbox 360 videogame, Fable:™ The Journey
It’s been virtually a decade because the occasions of delusion three, whilst the Hero vanquished the risk around the sea and claimed his throne. As king he led Albion to an period of remarkable peace and prosperity. yet at the evening of his marriage ceremony to his new queen, ominous note arrives: The darkness has returned.
past a harrowing mountain cross, the unique barren region state Samarkand has been overrun via shadowy forces. in the partitions of its capital urban, a mysterious usurper recognized merely because the Empress has seized keep watch over. to guard his realm, the king needs to lead his such a lot depended on allies right into a unusual land unknown to outsiders. As they forge forward alongside Samarkand’s historical nice street, populated through undead terrors and extraordinary creatures as soon as believed to be the stuff of legend, the king is drawn ever in the direction of his maximum problem yet.
yet quickly Albion is engulfed in a struggle of its personal. because the darkness spreads, city by means of city, a treacherous strength has infiltrated the queen’s circle. Now the destiny of all that's stable rests with a faint flicker of desire . . . that someplace, one way or the other, heroes nonetheless do exist.
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