Sanderson, Brandon

At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny.

Not realizing the consequences of killing the Lord Ruler, Vin is also consumed with guilt over releasing Ruin--a mystic force--from its well-prison. Meanwhile, Emperor Elend Venture attempts to decipher the clues left behind by the Lord Ruler in order to save the world.

Elend Venture, the new Lord Ruler of Luthadel, faces enemy armies led by his father, Lord Straff, who are camped outside the city gates.

The Skaa, having slaved in misery for a thousand years under the corrupt, absolute power of the Lord Ruler, still manage to find hope, which rises once again when a criminal mastermind teams up with an unlikely heroine.

An ordinary boy's unremarkable day takes a surprising turn when an adventure unfolds around him.

Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.

"For years, . . . Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set . . . since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner, Wayne, find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between the capital, Elendel, and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate--and Bilming is even more entangled. After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn't the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere--Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial . . . at any cost"--Provided by publisher.

Wax, his eccentric sidekick Wayne, and the young constable Marasi must unravel a conspiracy in Mistborn before civil discord can stop Scadrial's progress in its tracks.

"The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metalminds once owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they truly exist, but now a kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Plus another image that shocks Waxillium Ladrian: a photo of his sister, Telsin, being held captive by his uncle, a leader of the shadowy organization known as the Set. Wax travels south to the city of New Seran to investigate, along with his partner, Wayne, the brilliant Marasi, and the ethically flexible kandra MeLaan. On their journey they find the Set has discovered the wreckage of a mysterious ship miles from any water, and hold prisoner a masked survivor who barely speaks the language. His people and the Set are also hunting the Bands--can they be located before they fall into the wrong hands?"--Provided by publisher.

After twenty years in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will, has been forced by a family tragedy to return to Elendel and take over as the head of a noble house where he learns that the city can be even more dangerous than the plains of the Roughs.