Built up over the millennia, level upon level, the City is normally ancient and vast. Over the centuries, they have sprawled beyond its walls, the cause of constant battle with neighbouring peoples and kingdoms, laying waste materials to what was once green and fertile.

And at the heart of the town resides the emperor. Few possess ever seen him. Those people who have keep in mind a man in his prime and yet he ought to be extremely older. Some speculate that he’s no longer individual, others wonder if certainly he ever truly was. And a small number about THE TOWN attended to a eager summary: that the only path to avoid the ceaseless slaughter is certainly to get rid of the emperor’s unnaturally extended life.

Through the rotting, flood-ruined catacombs beneath the City where in fact the poor struggle to stay alive to the blood-soaked fields of battle where so few heroes survive, these rebels pin their hopes using one man. A guy who had been after the emperor’s foremost general. A guy, a revered soldier, who could lead an uprising and unite the City. But a guy who was simply betrayed, imprisoned, tortured and is currently thought to be dead…

Volume Among the astonishing debut fantasy book from Stella Gemmell, wife from the late, great David Gemmell.