The Empire Stone

LEGEND OF THE STONE

Thieves whisper the tale of the Empire Stone, saying that no one knows what it looks like, nor where it's hidden, just that it's an immense jewel filled with the magic of the Gods... and that whoever seeks it is doomed. But Peirol of the Moorlands – dwarf, gem trader, and rogue – doesn't care, because he never believed in the legend in the first place.

Then Peirol runs into bad luck, bad debts, bad blood, and one very powerful wizard who commands the dwarf to fetch the mythic Stone... or else. Thus Peirol becomes the reluctant hero of an impossible quest to reach a city that's on no map and steal an enchanted jewel he's sure doesn't exist. And if he survives pirates, warlords, monsters, damsels in distress, demons, ghosts, and death cults, Peirol must still find a way to outwit–

The Empire Stone itself.