Umber inclines her head and we regard the village below us, a hodgepodge of stone homes that can withstand fire, adorned with wooden shingles that cannot. “He forges weapons in the port city of Adisa. “Have the ghuls seek out Darin of Serra in Marinn,” I say. Neither she nor the Blood Shrike has been seen for weeks.” “We await your orders.” She grips a glaive in her left hand, its blade white with heat. “Meherya.” Umber’s sun-bright eyes are the vermillion of ancient anger. I will make my new home upon the bones of my foes. My old home is the Waiting Place-known to humans as the Forest of Dusk. My name drags me out of the past to a rain-swept hilltop in the Mariner countryside. Would that I had unearthed no magic, loved no wife, sparked no children, gentled no ghosts. Would that I had not learned to cherish it, my home.
The voice of Mauth, who is Death himself.Īrise, child of flame.
The voice that spoke was laden with millennia beyond my ken. He must take on a mission that could save – or destroy – all that he knows.I awoke in the glow of a young world, when man knew of hunting but not tilling, of stone but not steel. To uphold his oath and protect the human world from the supernatural, the Soul Catcher must look beyond the borders of his own land. Yet doing so means ignoring the trail of murder left by the Nightbringer and his jinn. And deep in the Waiting Place, the Soul Catcher seeks only to forget the life – and love – he left behind. In the process, she awakens an ancient power that could lead her to victory – or to an unimaginable doom. Determined to stop the approaching apocalypse, she throws herself into the destruction of the Nightbringer. Laia of Serra, now allied with the Blood Shrike, struggles to recover from the loss of the two people most important to her. At the top of the list? The Blood Shrike and her remaining family.
At his side, Commandant Keris Veturia declares herself Empress, and calls for the heads of any and all who defy her rule. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning. The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. Prepare for the jaw-dropping finale of Sabaa Tahir's beloved New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes fantasy series, and discover: Who will survive the storm? Picking up just a few months after A Reaper at the Gates left off.
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