Entry #3 in the popular Hell's Gate series by 28 times
New York Times best-selling author David Weber and
Joelle Presby.
The war between magically-gifted
Arcana and psionically talented Sharona continues to rage.
The dragon-borne Arcanan assault across five universes has
been halted at Fort Salby by a desperate defense, but at
atrocious cost. One of those costs was the life of Crown
Prince Janaki, heir to the newly created Sharonian Empire,
who went knowingly to his death in the tradition expected of
the House of alirath. And another price will be the
sacrifice of his younger sister, Grand Imperial Princess
Andrin, now heir of Sharona, for the accords creating the
Sharonian Empire require the marriage of the heir to the
Crown to wed a Uromathian prince.
Andrin bears her
family's Talent, the Glimpses, which show flashes of events
yet to come. She knows the accords must be secured . . . and
like her brother, she will pay any price, make any sacrifice
for her duty to her people.
Sharona's soldiers dig
in, facing the Arcanans in a tense standoff which cannot
last long. Both sides continue rushing reinforcements
towards the front, but how do armies fight wars when they
can reach one another only through the portals which join
the universes? And far, far behind the front, carried by
dragons, a young Voice name Shaylar and her husband Jathmar
hurtle deeper and deeper into Arcanan captivity, their only
protection the fierce personal honor of the Andaran officer
whose men massacred all of their companions in the
horrendous misunderstanding which began the entire
conflict.
Men and women of honor on both sides must
grapple with the terrible costs and deadly secrets of the
spreading cataclysm, and in the shadows, those who will balk
at neither treason nor murder drive the conspiracies which
pour fuel into the furnace. The stakes are high and the
pieces are in motion, but there are factors known not even
to the conspirators and not even a Calirath can Glimpse the
final outcome.
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