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“Swashbuckling fantasy adventure of the highest order. Immersive world-building, fantastic characters, and galloping pace. Readers will find its pages to be a treasure map that takes them to a world they’ll never want to leave.” —David Buzan, author of In the Lair of Legends
The Empire is fracturing, and the fires of rebellion are being stoked by a name whispered from the halls of power to the darkest shadows—Minna Hunter.
While the resistance celebrates a hard-won victory at the Cut, Minna remains haunted by uncertainty. To forge a future free from the Inquisition, she must decipher her dead mother’s final, cryptic plan. Her journey leads north to a hidden monastery, where a painting guards a secret that could topple the throne.
But Minna is not fighting alone. In the capital’s lawless Fallows, Harold and Nia wage a desperate shadow war against the Malleus and his new army of brutal foreign mercenaries. Meanwhile, former Seidi sisters Keelia and Flynn traverse the land, turning Minna’s story into a weapon of mass rebellion. As disparate paths converge and ancient truths surface, the cost of freedom becomes terrifyingly clear. Minna must decide if she can bear the weight of being the savior the world demands or if the price of destiny is too high to pay.