The Cymrian Saga continues. Enslaved in the lands of the Amorani Empire, the Southern guardsman Kearney Redguard finds that his captivity marks the beginning of a new struggle.As the Northern army takes over his homelands once again, Red is forced into the role of a reluctant leader, bringing together a band of insurgents and their griffins who will go into battle once more. Pitched against forces more powerful than any he has encountered before, Red will come face to face with death itself. In body and mind he will be tested in unimaginable ways.

Southerner Sergeant Kearney "Red" Redguard is the last son of a disgraced family, and a loyal guardsman. And with a murderer stalking the streets, the city guard is his city's best defense.But in the North, King Caedmon Taranisaii is gathering his army, and the cruel Night God prepares for the downfall of the South. A new dark griffin roams the land, warning of the war to come.Betrayed and sent on the run, Red must fight to save his homeland. But it may already be too late...Guards stay at their posts, and die to defend their cities...

Once more, battle lines are drawn between North and South. Old Loyalties are tested, and not just between the men and women of Cymria. The fearsome power of the rival griffins, Shar and Kraego culminates in a dramatic challenge, and only one will survive. The Night God's tortures continue as Captain Kearney Redguard is locked in his own struggle. Immortal, yet dead, unable to love, or be loved, he searches for the strength within his hollow soul to end the war, once, and for all.Will he succeed?The Cursed Guard is the third and much anticipated final book in the Southern Star Trilogy.