The Final Empire - Mistborn

For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Every attempted revolt has failed miserably. Yet somehow, hope survives. A new kind of uprising is being planned, one that depends on the cunning of a brilliant criminal mastermind and the courage of an unlikely heroine, a Skaa street urchin, who must learn to master Allomancy, the power of a Mistborn. Brandon Sanderson dares to turn a genre on its head asking a simple question - what if the prophesied hero had failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the 'Mistborn trilogy', a saga of surprises that begin right here.