Modesitt Jr.’s Imager Portfolio series opened with Imager in 2009, and around about book 8, Rex Regis, Tor started referring to it as “The New York Times Bestselling Imager Portfolio.” Modesitt has hit those rarefied heights before - the 20 books in his Saga of Recluse have sold over three million copies - but it was good to see him with another major success. Strangely, we don’t have a protocol for when a 12-book cycle completes, but we’re working on it. Compact Disc (October 27th, 2009): $23.Cover art for all 12 volumes by Donato GiancolaĮvery time a trilogy wraps up, we bake a cake at the Black Gate rooftop headquarters.The world is fascinating, and the Imagers themselves are extraordinary.” - Romantic Times BOOKreviews on Imager Product Details

Rivetingly beginning a new series, Imager Portfolio, this is thoroughly absorbing, whetting the appetite for the next installment.” - Library Journal on Imager The characters are real people, learning and struggling and dealing with their families. “Modesitt has drawn a world intriguing enough by itself and thoroughly integrated the magic of imaging into it. Modesitt's capacity to wring new surprises from stock ideas remains undiminished.” - Kirkus Reviews on Imager “The prolific Modesitt kicks off a new fantasy series that boasts an early modern setting-think Victorian times without the pollution. In the end, Rhenn must literally stand off against gang lords, naval marines, Tiempran terrorist priests, the most powerful High Holder in all of Solidar, and his own Collegium-and find a way to prevail without making further enemies and endangering those he loves.

Rhenn's only allies are the family of the girl he loves, successful merchants with underworld connections. Second, Rhenn receives formal notice that one of the High Holders, the father of a man Rhenn partly blinded in self-defense, has declared his intention to destroy Rhenn and his family. First, the Commander of the Civic Patrol doesn't want a liaison from the infamous Collegium, and soon has Rhenn patrolling the streets of the worst district in the city. No sooner has he assumed his new position than he discovers two things. Still recovering from injuries received in foiling the plots of the Ferran envoy, Rhenn is preparing to take up his new duties as imager liaison to the Civic Patrol of L'Excelsis. Imager's Challenge takes up immediately after the conclusion of Imager.

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