Redoubt

Its place in The Collegium Chronicles

Redoubt is book 4 in the The Collegium Chronicles series. It follows Changes. It is followed by Bastion. See the full The Collegium Chronicles reading order.

The Collegium Chronicles rewinds Valdemar's clock to its earliest days, generations before Talia's Arrows trilogy, to dramatize the founding of the Herald's Collegium itself — the training institution every later Herald in the series passes through. The story follows Mags, a former mine slave rescued and Chosen by the Companion Dallen, as he's brought to the newly-established Collegium and, despite deep trauma and suspicion of authority, is drawn into service as one of Valdemar's first spies, working directly for…