Vance Pumphrey: 2 books

THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES! Valdaar’s Fist. Forged by mortals. Enchanted by Drow. Wielded by a god. Lost by man. Or was it? The legend of Valdaar’s Fist survived many years even after it was reported destroyed in ages long since passed. Trapped and facing an array of evil beings...

This is Book One of the Defense of the Land series, and the fifth book in the Valdaar's Fist saga. In the age old struggle of good v. evil, who gets to decide who—or what—is good? Can a beautiful, goody-two-shoes paladin knowingly consort with an assassin? Depends on how desperate...