pbiSon of the Poison Rosei marks the second installment of iNew York Timesi bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's epic, swashbuckling Kagen the Damned series.b pThe Silver Empire is in ruins. War is in the wind. Kagen and his allies are on the run from the Witch-king. Wild magic is running rampant everywhere. Spies and secret cabals plot from the shadows of golden thrones. pKagen Vale is the most wanted man in the world, with a death sentence on his head and a reward for him--dead or alive--that would tempt a saint. pThe Witch-king has new allies who bring a terrible weapon--a cursed disease that drives people into a murderous rage. If the disease is allowed to spread, the whole of the West will tear itself apart. pIn order to build an army of resistance fighters and unearth magical weapons of his own, Kagen and his friends have to survive attacks and storms at sea, brave the haunted wastelands of the snowy north, fight their way across the deadly Cathedral Mountains, and rediscover a