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Also by G.R. Macallister:

Sestia, May 2025
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Arca, March 2023
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Scorpica, November 2022
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SESTIA
By: G.R. Macallister

Five Queendoms #3
S&S/Saga Press
May 2025
On Sale: May 13, 2025
496 pages
ISBN: 1982167955
EAN: 9781982167950
Kindle: B0DJLBT8HB
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy | Fiction Adventure | LGBTQ

Return to The Five Queendoms series with the final book in this “ambitious and engaging” (Rebecca Roanhorse) epic fantasy trilogy, in which a centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single girl being born.

While a fragile peace has begun to settle across the Five Queendoms of the known world, trouble brews beneath the smooth façade. The first gate between the Underlands, where Eresh rules over the shades of the dead, has already been opened—and the scheming shade of a dead sorcerer has evil plans he hopes to unleash on the world. In the world Above, the Scorpicae struggle to find a path forward in defeat, the embattled regent of Paxim gets more than she bargained for, and a young woman who barely survived the Sun Rites finds herself the indispensable right hand of a priest-queen whose sanity appears to be slipping away.

As living women across the Queendoms take desperate action to stay alive, and dead women plot to regain what they’ve lost, the time for the next Sun Rites nears. When five queens gather in the Holy City of Sestia for the most important ritual of their lives, who will be left standing?