← The Old Hunger

BY AURORA COLD

The Old Hunger:
reading order and book facts

The Old Hunger is an adult epic fantasy series by Aurora Cold.

Reading order

  1. Where Steel Failed

    The Old Hunger, Book One ·

  2. What Wrath Requires

    The Old Hunger, Book Two ·

Where Steel Failed: facts

Series
The Old Hunger, Book One
Author
Aurora Cold
Genre
Adult epic fantasy · epic, military, coming of age
Release
Formats
Kindle · paperback · hardcover
Length
376 pages (paperback and hardcover) · about 123,000 words · Kindle print length on Amazon: 378 pages
Kindle
$0.99 (price checked ) · Free with Kindle Unlimited (now Kindle+)
Paperback
$14.99 (price checked )
Hardcover
$22.99 (price checked )
ASIN (Kindle)
B0HKDFK6SX
ASIN (Paperback)
B0HKGDVM1Y
ASIN (Hardcover)
B0HKG6HDWN
ISBN (Paperback)
9798175805087
ISBN (Hardcover)
9798175807159
Content note
Graphic violence, including torture
Standalone?
No. Book One; Book Two, What Wrath Requires, is out
Ratings & reviews
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Where Steel Failed: book description

He survives. His companions do not.

At an isolated monastery, Seraph watches a single man tear through the finest soldiers in his kingdom: his fellow Guardians of the Realm, sent with him to retrieve a rusted sword the Palace cannot even name. Their armor, their training, their courage—none of it is enough.

A secret warrior order takes him in and offers him a way to face the killer. First, he must learn to wield the forces that made his sword useless. His teachers can fade from sight. Powers he never knew existed begin to answer him. Every lesson hurts, and every day he spends learning is a day the killer can spend mastering what he stole.

His old life taught him whom to obey. This new one demands that he decide whom to trust.

With Miriam and Reidell, Seraph leaves the Sanctuary to hunt the man who killed his companions. Their search for the killer and the relic draws them into a war between kingdoms.

The people beside him give him reasons to care about more than vengeance. The power growing within him gives him something else: a hunger he must learn to govern before vengeance governs him.

Where Steel Failed is Book One of The Old Hunger, an adult epic fantasy about trust, hard lessons, and truths no one wants to face, where telling good from evil is rarely easy.

The Old Hunger begins here. The saga continues in What Wrath Requires.

Content note: graphic violence, including torture.

What Wrath Requires: facts

Series
The Old Hunger, Book Two
Author
Aurora Cold
Genre
Adult epic fantasy
Release
Formats
Kindle (pre-order)
ASIN (Kindle)
B0HKDQXB5Q
Reading order
Book Two. Start with Where Steel Failed
Language
English

The series

The hunger grows with every taste of it.

The Old Hunger follows a soldier’s relentless search for vengeance, the clandestine order that teaches him to command an unseen power, and the terrible price of wielding it.

In Where Steel Failed, Seraph survives a massacre that leaves his armor and training meaningless. Beyond the Sanctuary lies a world of rival kingdoms, ancient relics, and loyalties he has yet to understand. Beside him are people who make that world worth discovering—and worth defending.

His pursuit of a single killer draws him into a war far larger than his own grief. Strength can carry him through a battle. It cannot decide whom he should trust, what he owes the living, or how much of himself he is willing to sacrifice for the dead.

A saga of hard-won trust, dangerous power, and wonder in the shadow of war.

The series begins with Where Steel Failed and continues with What Wrath Requires.

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