‘If you’re a fan of the likes of Joe Abercrombie or George R.R. Martin, then you’ll be very happy to learn that Anna Stephens has joined up with this august pantheon of lovingly horrible and deliciously dark writers’

STARBURST

Rilporin has fallen and Corvus, King of the Mireces, reigns over an occupied property. The raiders and their dark religion have conquered, but triumph came at a terrible price – the loss of life of a god – and sparks of level of resistance glimmer on all edges.

In the south, Mace gathers the survivors of Rilpor’s armies. Among the brutal tribes of Krike, Crys and Dom seek out allies as well as for the truth of what binds them to the Gods of Light. And in the royal palace itself, Tara – once a soldier, right now a slave – hopes to ignite a rebellion.

But time is against them. A kid will be given birth to with the power to return the Dark Woman from death, and the long-prophesied last battle for the future of Rilpor and Mireces, of humans and gods, is near.