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Brandon Sanderson grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. His bestsellers have sold 45 million copies worldwide and include the Mistborn saga; the Stormlight Archive novels; and other novels, including Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Rithmatist, Steelheart, and Skyward. He won a Hugo Award for The Emperor's Soul, a novella set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he completed Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time®. Visit his website for behind-the-scenes information on all his books.

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From the author of the connected universe of the Cosmere comes the standalone novel from which spring characters who later play roles in the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive.

In the world of Warbreaker, each person is born endowed with the power of one Breath-which can be sold and collected by others, then used to Awaken objects and even corpses to do their bidding. A few individuals who die in glory return as gods, with the power of thousands of Breath, but no memory of their mortal lives-and are enthroned in the Court of Gods in Hallandren's capital. To Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris, the abuse of Breath and the claim of the Returned to be gods are repugnant blasphemy. But with one princess wed to the God King of their nation's enemies in a bid for peace, the other finds she must rely on Breath-using mercenaries to try to rescue her sister from her monstrous husband.

Lightsong the Bold, a lesser god who doubts his own religion, starts investigating mysterious murders in the Court of Gods and uncovers haunting clues to his own forgotten past. He is one of four gods who controls the army of Awakened Lifeless soldiers, and one faction is inciting an invasion of Idris despite the marriage treaty. Vasher-wielder of the sapient sword Nightblood-works behind the scenes against the declaration of war, but Lightsong's visions of bloodshed prophesy its inevitability. Can the new queen, unaware of her sister's imminent rescue attempt, persuade Lightsong and also somehow get through to the aloof God King-who she has been forbidden to speak to or even look in the eyes-before her homeland is destroyed?

Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson

The Cosmere
The Stormlight Archive
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer (novella)
Oathbringer
Dawnshard (novella)
*Rhythm of War

• *Wind and Truth

• The Mistborn Saga
  The Original Trilogy
  Mistborn
  The Well of Ascension
  The Hero of Ages

  Wax & Wayne
  The Alloy of Law
  Shadows of Self
  The Bands of Mourning
  The Lost Metal

  Other Cosmere novels
  Elantris
  Warbreaker
  Tress of the Emerald Sea
  Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
  The Sunlit Man

  Collection
  Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

  Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
  Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
  The Scrivener's Bones
  The Knights of Crystallia
  The Shattered Lens
  The Dark Talent
  Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (with Janci Patterson)

  Other novels
  The Rithmatist
  Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
  The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

  Other books by Brandon Sanderson

  The Reckoners
  Steelheart
  Firefight
  Calamity
  Lux (with Steven Michael Bohls)

  Skyward
  Skyward
  Starsight
  Cytonic
  Skyward Flight (with Janci Patterson)
  Defiant