**The Traitor Baru Cormorant is the critically-acclaimed debut novel
from Seth Dickinson, one of the rising new stars in fantasy.
**
Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up and see red sails on
the horizon.
The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with coin and ink, doctrine and
compass, soap and lies. They will conquer Baru's island, rewrite her
culture, criminalize her customs, and dispose of one of her fathers. But
Baru is patient. She'll swallow her hate, join the Masquerade, and claw
her way high enough up the rungs of power to set her people free.
To test her loyalty, the Masquerade will send Baru to bring order to
distant Aurdwynn, a snakepit of rebels, informants, and seditious dukes.
But Baru is a savant in games of power, as ruthless in her tactics as
she is fixated on her goals. In the calculus of her schemes, all ledgers
must be balanced, and the price of liberation paid in full.