A Cold and Lonely Place — William King

"The King of High Adventure," Starlog.

"Immediately convincing, classically brooding," Steve Tompkins, The Cimmerian.com.


To the world at large, he is a mercenary and assassin, a brutal killer with a deadly blade. In reality Kormak is a Guardian, one of an ancient order sworn to protect humanity from the servants of the gathering darkness.


Grimhaven holds a fatal secret as any visitor discovers too late. On a dark autumn evening, as the full  moon glares down on the village, a stranger arrives, a man called Kormak, on a mission to uncover what happened to a friend who vanished months ago.


A Cold and Lonely Place is a 6000 word sword and sorcery short story.