Loyalties are tested when worlds collide.... Every 2,000 years, the dark
star Oma appears in the sky, bringing with it a tide of death and
destruction. And those who survive must contend with friends and enemies
newly imbued with violent powers.
The kingdom of Saiduan already lies in ruin, decimated by invaders from
another world, who share the faces of those they seek to destroy. Now
the nation of Dhai is under siege by the same force. Their only hope for
survival lies in the hands of an illegitimate ruler and a scullery maid
with a powerful but unpredictable magic.
As the foreign empire spreads across the world like a disease, one of
their former allies takes up her empress' sword again to unseat them,
and two enslaved scholars begin a treacherous journey home with a
long-lost secret that they hope is the key to the empire's undoing. But
when the enemy shares your own face, who can be trusted?
In this devastating sequel to The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley
transports us back to a land of blood mages and sentient plants, dark
magic and warfare on a scale that spans worlds.
Kameron Hurley currently hacks out a living as a marketing and
advertising writer in Ohio. She's lived in Fairbanks, Alaska; Durban,
South Africa; and Chicago but grew up in and around Washington state.
Her personal and professional exploits have taken her all around the
world. She spent much of her roaring 20s traveling, pretending to learn
how to box, and trying not to die spectacularly. Along the way she
justified her nomadic lifestyle by picking up degrees in history from
the University of Alaska and the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal.
