About the Book
A dark and powerful fantasy from the bestselling author of Ender’s Shadow.
Enter
the city of Hart’s Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent,
riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious
lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his
people.
Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He
took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now Queen by her
father’s death, to marry him, raping her to consummate the marriage.
[But he was not cruel enough to rule.] He let her live after her
humiliation; live to bear a daughter; live to return from exile and
retake the throne of Hart’s Hope.
But she, in turn, sent
Palicrovol into exile to breed a son who would, in the name of the God,
take back the kingdom from its cruel Queen.
