Tor Books
May 2019
On Sale: April 30, 2019
384 pages ISBN: 0765380145 EAN: 9780765380142 Kindle: B06XRJHX3Z Trade Size / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
The Stone in the Skull, the first volume in her new
trilogy, takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of
the Steles of the Sky and south into the Lotus Kingdoms.
The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of
Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is
long dead, and he works as a mercenary. He is carrying a
message from the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the
Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is The Dead Man, a
bitter survivor of the body guard of the deposed Uthman
Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are
friends, of a peculiar sort.
They are walking into a dynastic war between the rulers of
the shattered bits of a once great Empire.