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The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four, each tumbling to the White King's armies. Gavin Guile—once emperor, Prism, and galley slave—is now broken and locked within a prison he forged to hold a great magical genius, yet he himself lacks magic. In that prison, he may not be alone.
His son, Kip Guile, mounts a desperate plan to halt the White King's expanding hordes. Meanwhile, Karris White negotiates the unraveling of her empire, aided only by her treacherous and possibly murderous father‑in‑law, Andross Guile. As Teia develops new powers, their darker implications threaten to exact a heavy toll. Together, they must fight to keep a tainted empire from becoming even worse.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Fantasy/Epic Fantasy
Authors: Brent Weeks
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