Killian Lord is dead.
Stabbed by a poisoned blade, he dies in the arms of Ilse Edelweiss, the half-elf sorceress who loves him.
But Ilse refuses to let him go. Using the Timekeeper’s Hourglass, she tears open the fabric of time itself and pulls him back from death.
It works. But something goes terribly wrong.
Lord wakes in a twisted mirror of his own kingdom—a dark and dystopian world where King Ember is a cold, cruel tyrant.
There’s only one way home: Alberick the Terrible, a dark elf wizard imprisoned by his own kind a thousand years past, locked in an anti-magic cage for a rebellion that nearly tore the world asunder.
Alberick alone can send Lord home. But nothing comes free.
Lord must do the unthinkable: strike a deal with the very monster the elves buried alive to keep the world safe.
But Lord’s not the only one hunting the dark wizard. The Void has summoned a demon to find Alberick first—and use him to unleash Hell itself.
Yet here, in this dark reflection of his world, Lord finds another Ilse—one he’s falling for just as hard as the one he left behind. Saving her means losing the other forever.
To find his way home, Lord will have to make some terrible choices.
He needs Alberick’s help.
But some monsters should never be freed.
Mage in a Cage is the fourth explosive adventure in the King’s Dark Blade series. If you love fantasy with impossible choices, high-stakes magic, and a hero who refuses to stay dead, you’ll devour this one.
