Ambessa Chosen Of The Wolf is now available for purchase in the United States and the United Kingdom. The novel is based on League of Legends and Arcane.
Written by author C.L. Clark and published by Hachette Book Group imprint Orbit, the epic fantasy novel focuses on fan-favorite League of Legends champion and Arcane character Ambessa Medarda, mother of Mel Medarda. Set 10 years before Arcane in the Noxian region of Runeterra, the story chronicles Ambessa’s fight to be the head of the Medardas.
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The book is rooted in League of Legends lore. Its prologue is the written version of the “Blood, Sweat & Tears” music video highlighting Ambessa, and the book also includes lore from Arcane.
Ambessa Chosen of the Wolf has been praised by critics and fans alike and was an Amazon Editors’ Pick for the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy books of February 2025. This follows the continued success of League of Legends and Arcane properties, with the stories of these fan-favorite characters continuing to win hearts and praise everywhere.
The print novel, e-book and audiobook are available for purchase via Hachette Book Group, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Bookshop, Walmart, Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo, Audible, Libro.fm and AudioBooks.com. Basically, anywhere you can purchase a book, Ambessa Chosen of the Wolf will be available.
Publication dates in other regions include:
- March 20, 2025: Spain (through publisher Penguin Random House)
- March 26, 2025: Poland (through publisher Insignis)
- September 4, 2025: France (through publisher Mana books)
Ambessa Chosen Of The Wolf will also be published in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Turkey and additional territories, with new regions and publication dates to be announced.
What is Ambessa Chosen Of The Wolf about?
Set in the blockbuster and award-winning universe of League of Legends: Arcane and written by award-winning author C. L. Clark, discover a thrilling epic fantasy novel where Ambessa Medarda truly learns what it means to be a Chosen of the Wolf.
Ambessa Medarda: Warrior, general, mother. She is a woman to be feared, and the Medardas are unrivaled in their pursuit of glory. She has led conquests and armies. She has slain legendary beasts. She has made grave sacrifices in her ascent up the ranks. And for this, she was rewarded: She entered the realm of death and was granted a vision of herself upon the throne of the vast Noxian empire.
But before she can lead her empire, she must become head of her own clan. Yet the title is contested by her cousin and former confidante, Ta’Fik. He knows the bloody sins of Ambessa’s past. And he knows he cannot allow her to rise.
They will fight a war for the very soul of the Medardas.
But the war won’t be fought on battlefields alone. Ambessa’s daughter, Mel, can deftly break through the walls around anyone’s heart, and she’ll put her talents to use for her mother. Yet, despite Mel’s strength, Ambessa sees only a child who lacks her killer instincts. Mel knows she can be the leader Ambessa wants her to be if only she gives her time.
With her family betraying her, enemies closing in on all sides, and unseen forces moving in the shadows, every day proves more dangerous than the last. But Ambessa will not bow. She will burn the world down to claim her place in it.
Medarda over all.
More about the author, C.L. Clark
C.L. Clark is a BFA award-winning editor and Ignyte award-winning author of several books, including The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost trilogy), Fate’s Bane (a novella), and Ambessa Chosen of the Wolf (an Arcane novel). She graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA and was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow. She’s been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination thereof as she travels the world.
When she’s not writing or working, she’s learning languages, reading about war and [post-]colonial history, or trying not to throw her kettlebells through the wall. Her work has appeared in various SFF venues, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tor.com, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
