Queen of Demons

Garric or-Reise, the innkeeper's son who learned he descends from the Isles' last true king, is still working to hold together the fragile alliance he built in the first book, as old magic and older enemies test whether a scattered archipelago can really be ruled as one again. Sorcery drawn from a forgotten language, the Old Script, keeps surfacing in ways that put Garric and his companions in danger far from any battlefield they know how to fight on. Second novel in David Drake's Lord of the Isles series.