Stone reluctantly accepts his promised last mission: assassinate the Imperium Queen. It should have been routine, a simple in-and-out operation-get close, pull the trigger, and disappear into the sprawling United Word Empire of thousands of worlds.

But the evil powers of hate interfered. Stone's finger squeezed the trigger.

The target lay lifeless, but it wasn't the Queen. It was the last Imperium Knight-the Queen's beloved husband.

Stone becomes a wanted man, hunted by everyone. With no friends or allies remaining, he sinks into the only way of life he knows.

He sought solace in the bottom of a glass, the warmth of nameless favors of despair and self-hate, he slips closer to a watery self-ending. What Stone did not understand was for a new Armsman to come forth, the last Knight must end.

Inside his self-pity at the last second of life and death, he hears a voice call out in the fog. Is it the voice of his lost love, the one woman who saw good inside a man made of stone?Read Knights End to discover how the last Armsman was born from the sacrifice of a Queen's love.

"Knights End" story is the last of the three Prequels. A full-length novel titled The Beginning picks up with Armsman Stone taking his place in the galactic war between hate and love.

Are you ready to follow along with Stone as he takes on powers that seek to control humankind everywhere?. .