Partway through. From the author of the Midkemia books but set on the world of Garn. Prologue opens with the carnage of war and I found it hard to read. It's told (in 3rd person) from baron Daylon‘s PoV - he will do the wrong thing for what he thinks is the right reason.
The book itself focuses on 4 teens in alternating chapters, about 15 years later.