The heart-pounding conclusion to the daring Smoke Thieves trilogy.
In this conclusion to the epic Smoke Thieves trilogy, the world has
erupted into all-out war. King Aloysius is mining powerful demon smoke
and using it to fuel an unstoppable army of children. March, now
banished for treason, has joined up with this boy army. Forbidden from
ever seeing Edyon again, and overwhelmed by his own betrayal, March no
longer cares if he lives or dies.
Catherine--now queen of Pitoria--must find a way to defeat the boy army,
while also grappling with her own troubles: her secret demon smoke
addiction, and unresolved tension with her former lover, Ambrose.
Catherine seeks military support from Calidor by reaching out to her
illegitimate cousin Edyon, who has been proclaimed heir to the
Calidorian throne. But Edyon has almost no power as he's entangled in
the unfamiliar machinations and manipulations of the royal court,
finding that being the claimed son of a prince may be no easier than
being a bastard.
With Catherine, his love, now married off and moving on, and his brother
and sister tortured and executed before him, Ambrose doesn't know what
his role in this world is any more. He leads an expedition into the
demon world, hoping to destroy the boy army's stores of demon smoke. In
this underground world, he runs into Tash, whom everyone had believed
dead. She has survived in this new world using magical abilities that,
prior to now, only demons had.
Aloysius will send his demon smoke-powered boy army to kill them all, if
he can. But what nobody knows is that there is more to the smoke than
meets the eye...
