


So please, join us for a Year of Sanderson and experience for yourself the secret I’ve been keeping these last few years.

So, while we kept the surprise intact on this page we’re also going to be releasing detailed previews of each book. However, I also know that many of you enjoy teasers, minor spoilers, and previews. We also thought this might make it fun for book clubs or groups of friends and family to co-read a mysterious Sanderson book, knowing almost nothing about it. Some of you might want to receive these books with minimal spoilers and just enjoy them fresh and new, without even knowing the title ahead of time-kind of like going into a movie blind, never having seen the trailer, on the promise that it’s by a filmmaker you know you love. Well, we thought it would be fun to keep those hidden for now. You might be asking why none of these have titles yet. Three of these are Cosmere books taking place on new worlds, and the other one is something completely different. Each also takes you to someplace new, original, and vibrant. I’m extremely proud of them, as each represents some new aspect of storytelling that has forced me to grow in an interesting way. So I squeezed them in during moments of free time, crafting four brand new novels. Despite all of my other obligations, I had to write these stories.

Over the last two years, a group of ideas wormed their way into my brain and I found I couldn’t let them go. I’m excited to present this first book to you at last: a different type of Brandon Sanderson story, one I wrote when there were no time constraints, no expectations, and no limits on my imagination. She urged me to share it with the world-and alongside three other secret novels, with the support of readers worldwide it grew into the biggest Kickstarter campaign of all time. I started writing this in secret, as a novel just for my wife. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death? But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride.
