World of Warcraft: Midnight: Blood Ties

This one is either my 59^th or 60^th (who’s counting at this point?) My father passed during the writing of Tides of War, and it was a poignant coincidence that my mother died during the writing of BLOOD TIES. How perfect that it was a story about a family. Alleria and Turalyon have been dear to me for decades, and it was an honor to work with Blizzard in refamiliarizing Arator for my readers. This book has some of my best work in it, I feel. For Azeroth! -- Christie

An official prequel novel to World of Warcraft: Midnight

Arator the Redeemer was born to heroism. The son of High Exarch Turalyon and the legendary Alleria Windrunner, Arator has long borne the weight and expectations of their legacy . . . a legacy he inherited as a babe, the day his parents disappeared through the Dark Portal.

Alleria and Turalyon's journey took them farther afield than they'd intended. While their absence spanned mere decades on Azeroth, the heroes experienced a thousand years at war against the Burning Legion — a demonic army seeking the destruction of all worlds. When at last they reunited with their son, Arator was a man grown, pledged to the very order of paladins for which they had once fought. The Legion fell quickly in a decisive final battle, yet the millennium of distance between the family was less easily conquered.

Now, as rumors surface of a strange glow emanating from the ruins of a long-abandoned Legion base, Arator embarks on a journey that will force him to confront not only unknown dangers, but the weight of his parents' legacy — and the truth of who he is meant to become.