The Lost Metal

Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.

Waxillium Ladrian, a former frontier lawman turned big-city senator, has been hunting the mysterious group known as the Set—whose leaders include his late uncle and sister—for years since they began enslaving individuals who had allomancy in their bloodlines. A fresh lead is revealed when Detective Marasi Colms and her colleague, Wayne, discover weapons that are heaped up and headed toward the Outer City of Bilming. The Set is the lone party to the conflict between Elendel, the capital, and the Outer Cities, and Bilming is more enmeshed as a result of their tentacles now reaching the Elendel Senate, whose corruption Wax and his wife, Steris, have attempted to uncover.

The Set worshiped Trell, and when Wax finds a new kind of explosive that can cause unimaginable devastation and concludes that the Set must already possess it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's deity, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has been influenced by Trell. Furthermore, Marsi is recruited by offworlders with unusual talents who say their mission is to safeguard Scadrial at all costs. Trell is not the only element from the greater Cosmere at work.

Wax needs to decide whether he wants to put his tumultuous connection with God aside and turn back into the Sword that Harmony has been molding him into. Millions of people will face abrupt and catastrophic destruction on the globe if someone doesn't volunteer to be the hero Scadrial needs.