Dance of Jesters (The Great Dance Book 1)

Life is a dance of jesters until the daggers appear.
Esteban Audaz had everything—wealth, power, and respect. A storied name and rule of a prosperous, oceanside city. He had the love of a beautiful woman.
Until he was betrayed, attacked, and left to die at sea.
Wounded, he washes up on an island shrouded in myth, a place his people have cursed with fearful whispers for centuries. The bones of a dead civilization lay under its tropical forests, haunted by a mysterious man who keeps a deadly secret. Older, darker things sleep in its ruins—powers that might have turned an island paradise into a graveyard.
Determined to reclaim his home, Esteban resolves to forge himself anew. To defeat his enemies, he’ll need to sharpen himself into a vengeful blade. War is coming, and all of Vilancia could be consumed in the conflagration. Esteban may be the spark that ignites a terrible blaze, or the flame that cleanses the rot from the heart of the realm.
DANCE OF JESTERS is book one of THE GREAT DANCE, a series about the revenge of a decent man. If you like dark magic, fast-paced plots, rapiers, swashbuckling, political intrigue, and conflicts of the heart, you’ll love this new series from D.W. Hawkins, author of THE SEVEN SIGNS. Read it now, and sink into a mysterious new world.