Beneath an Opal Moon

Its place in The Sunset Warrior Cycle

Beneath an Opal Moon is book 4 in the The Sunset Warrior Cycle series. It follows Dai-San. It is followed by Dragons on the Sea of Night. See the full The Sunset Warrior Cycle reading order.

Eric Van Lustbader's first published fiction, written well before his thrillers made his name, is a post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery cycle set after the surface of the Earth has frozen over. The survivors of that catastrophe shelter in the Freehold, a feudal underground society ruled by lords called the Saardin and enforced by an elite caste of samurai-trained fighters, the Bladesmen. The Sunset Warrior (1977) introduces Ronin, an unaffiliated Bladesman who lives by his own code rather than any lord's, and who…