The Scarab Path
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
by Adrian TchaikovskyCover Illustration © Jon Sullivan
Jacket Design by Jacqueline Cooke
Coming in April
The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend, haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease, seeking for meaning in a city that no longer seems like home.
The Empress Seda is regaining control over those imperial cities that refused to bow the knee to her, but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies and war machines. Only her consort, the former spymaster Thalric, knows the truth, and now the assassins are coming and he finds his life and his loyalties under threat yet again.
Out past the desert of the Nem the ancient city of Khanaphes awaits them both, with a terrible secret entombed beneath its stones...
This is the fifth novel in the Shadows of the Apt series following Empire in Black and Gold, Dragonfly Falling, Blood of the Mantis, and Salute the Dark.
The Empress Seda is regaining control over those imperial cities that refused to bow the knee to her, but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies and war machines. Only her consort, the former spymaster Thalric, knows the truth, and now the assassins are coming and he finds his life and his loyalties under threat yet again.
Out past the desert of the Nem the ancient city of Khanaphes awaits them both, with a terrible secret entombed beneath its stones...
This is the fifth novel in the Shadows of the Apt series following Empire in Black and Gold, Dragonfly Falling, Blood of the Mantis, and Salute the Dark.
So I'm quoted on the back, eh? That's nice to see :-) Very beautiful artwork though. Congrats to the Pyr team on another great looking book!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for the quote!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cover! Love how moody it is. And so glad to see Che on the front. Every book of this series I read, I love her more, and I thought she rocked in the first one. She's absolutely one of the favorite protagonists I've read recently.
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