Magic's Promise

Its place in The Last Herald-Mage

Magic's Promise is book 2 in the The Last Herald-Mage series. It follows Magic's Pawn. It is followed by Magic's Price. See the full The Last Herald-Mage reading order.

The Last Herald-Mage trilogy follows Vanyel Ashkevron, a sensitive, artistically-inclined young nobleman whose family has no patience for a son who won't fit the mold of a warrior-heir — until a devastating personal tragedy triggers his latent mage-Gift and he's sent to Valdemar's capital, where he's Chosen by the Companion Yfandes and trained as a Herald. Vanyel becomes the most powerful Herald-Mage Valdemar has produced in generations, a distinction that costs him nearly everything: the trilogy is as much about…