Defender cover art

Defender

The Sanctuary Series, Volume One

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for £5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Defender

By: Robert J. Crane
Narrated by: Wayne Thompson
Try Standard free

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £15.50

Buy Now for £15.50

About this listen

A rich, character-driven fantasy with Lord of the Rings-like adventure and the fraught political tension of Game of Thrones. Get ready to lose sleep.

**This series is complete**

Ten thousand years ago, the gods themselves forged weapons of war unmatched by any mortal steel. Most were lost to the mysteries of time. A few... not.

Now Arkaria teeters on destruction as these ancient god-weapons resurface, fueling a brutal race for power among villains and kings.

When Cyrus Davidon’s gold-hunting warriors stumble into a dragon’s den, disaster strikes, forcing an alliance with Vara, a razor-tongued elven paladin whose secrets make her as dangerous as she is captivating, and Vaste, a humorous troll whose magic fluctuates between salvation and chaos. Together they must brave the lands of Arkaria and find out who is pulling the strings before the guild of Sanctuary and Arkaria are destroyed.

From sprawling battlefields to shadowed courts, every move could tip the balance.

Dive into Defender, the first book of the Sanctuary Series, where epic battles, biting humor, and a cast you’ll never forget collide in a race against annihilation.

©2011 Ostiagard Press (P)2025 Ostiagard Press Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Adventure Dragons

Continue the series
Avenger cover art
Avenger By: Robert J. Crane
All stars
Most relevant
It takes the first few chapters to get into the story, but it is worth a read if you are into fiction and fantasy. The characters are good and the story develops well.

A good story.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
no grab to this book. Never finished reading it. Found my thoughts drifting to other things than listenening to the story.

Boring

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Awesome series, has great characters, I loved reading them and now cant stop listening to them :)

Epic Series!!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I love this sort of fantasy novel but this comes across like somebody who has played Dungeons & Dragons once and wanted to write a book about it. It is unengaging and tedious. It is so boring I can't name a single one of the characters and I don't know what an earth are trying to do. The story seems to avoid anything that is of interest. To try to compare this to Tolkien is a utter joke.

Dreadful and tedious

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.