The Scarab Path is an astonishingly immersive fantasy, fifth in the
Shadows of the Apt series by Arthur C. Clarke award-winner, Adrian
Tchaikovsky.
Ancient powers are waking . . .
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.
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 once again. Then out beyond the desert of the Nem, the ancient
city of Khanaphes awaits them both, with a terrible secret entombed
beneath its stones.
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