The Price of Valour
core novel 2015 The Shadow Campaigns
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.24 (9,067 ratings, collected 2026-08-25) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780091950569 |
Synopsis
The Price of Valour follows Winter Ihernglass after the upheavals of the previous volume, as she is placed in command of a newly formed all-female unit nicknamed the Girls' Own, no longer hiding behind a male disguise but instead facing open skepticism and institutional prejudice toward women in uniform. The kingdom of Vordan, still unsettled after its recent political upheaval, contends with the growing influence of the deputy-general Maurisk, whose rising power begins to strain the fragile new order at home. As Winter's battalion is drawn into siege warfare on a hostile front, tensions in the capital mount alongside the military campaign, with political distrust threatening to unravel the fragile peace the revolution was meant to secure. The volume follows these parallel struggles, on the battlefield and within Vordan's government, as both edge toward a breaking point.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Shadow Campaigns
- Series: The Shadow Campaigns core; position 3 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Django Wexler
Notes
- From the series record (The Shadow Campaigns): Core = the 5 main-sequence novels (2013-2017), a flintlock/gunpowder fantasy military series. Expanded = two e-novellas set in the same continuity, The Penitent Damned (2013) and The Shadow of Elysium (2015), not catalogued.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Shadow Campaigns: position 3 of 5: previous The Shadow Throne (2014) · next The Guns of Empire (2016)
Sources
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