This second hardcover edition of SIEGE OF TARR-HOSTIGOS is the fourth book in the Kalvan Saga and begins right after Kalvan Kingmaker upon Kalvan’s return from the Trygath and his resounding military success over the invading nomad clans. Unfortunately, this military action has given Great King Lysandros a year to rebuild the Harphaxi army and, together with Styphon’s House, put together the Grand Host of Styphon’s House—the largest army ever assembled on Aryan-Transpacific, Styphon’s House subsector. Kalvan has awakened the sleeping tiger of Styphon’s House and they are out for blood. The Grand Host under the aegis of Holy Investigatory Roxthar—the Torquemada of Aryan-Transpacific, Styphon’s House Subsector—will bring the full-fledged religious war to Hos-Hostigos and the Five Kingdoms that Kalvan has always feared. This is a campaign that—win or lose—will cost Kalvan some of his good friends, part of his family and possibly the Kingship of Hos-Hostigos.

Attempts by Verkan Vall, Paratime Police Chief, to help Kalvan survive the Styphoni onslaught come to naught as he is frustrated at every level by Paratime bureaucratic regulations, the machinations of the Kalvan Study Team and First Level red tape. But far worse events will befall the University of Dhergabar Kalvan Study Team and Verkan himself, when they run head-on into the Styphoni juggernaut of the Grand Host at the Royal Foundry outside Hostigos Town. The courage and valor of Kalvan and his friends are put to the final test in this all-out war for the future of Hos-Hostigos and its royal family.