Help identify recent epic fantasy book about immortal(?) warrior

[Clay]

Crossposted from "What is the Name of That Book?"

Sorry, this is going to be really vague, but I am pretty sure it was an epic fantasy book from the past 5 years or so. I just read an excerpt, probably the Kindle sample.

There was some of kind of group of chosen heroes, maybe seven of them. I think they had to endure some kind of painful process to be imbued with this mystical power. And they were doomed/fated to live forever, or keep being reborn. (Or it might have been just one of them, like the last survivor.) Then I think it jumps forward in time to centuries later, when they are just a hazy legend. Seems like the main character had a lot of angst, or regret for failing to save the others, or something like that.

Does that ring a bell at all?

[Louise]

It's not Brandon Sanderson Way of Kings is it? It sounds a little like the prologue but it's been a while since I read it so I could be wrong. The prelude takes place from the viewpoint of one of the ten heralds of the almighty and is about 4500 years before the events of the first chapter.

[Carole-Ann]

If I didn't know any better, and if there was the remotest chance that your book was listed under Romance, then I'd say it's the first one of Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld series.

Book 1 is Maddox and Ashlyn's story The Darkest Night

[Clay]

I've read part of Way of Kings and keep meaning to go back to it, so it's possible I'm remembering that, but the prologue doesn't seem like the bit I remember.

Carole-Ann: good try but yeah, it wasn't a romance book.

[Leonie]

Yes, my first thought was The Way of Kings as well. It sounds a lot like the prologue.

[Bill]

Without the time jump it sounds like Dawnthief by James Barclay. It is the first in the chronicles of Raven series. It is about 7 mercenaries called the Raven that are in search of a magic that has been lost for centuries(maybe the time jump you were thinking of). One of the members suffers from what you described.

[Clay]

Way of Kings is it. The prologue is so short I missed it the first time I looked. Thanks!

[Leonie]

Yay!