Nothing is as it seems. The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to claim for their own. Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father. Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son against both murderous threats and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way. And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine Order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes.
- ISBN10 0765360934
- ISBN13 9780765360939
- Publish Date 2 August 2011 (first published 14 September 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 November 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 496
- Language English