Brian Staveley’s fresh standalone returns to the critically acclaimed Chronicle from the Unhewn Throne universe, carrying out a priestess-assassin for the God of Loss of life “Brilliant.” V. E. Schwab, NY Times bestselling author Through the award-winning epic illusion world from the Emperor’s Blades…

Pyrre Lakatur isn’t, to her brain, an assassin, not a murderer she is a priestess. At least, she’ll end up being once she passes her final trial. The issue isn’t the eliminating. The problem, rather, is appreciate. For to about Skullsworn complete her trial, Pyrre provides ten times to kill the seven people enumerated within an historic track, including “the one who made your mind and body sing with love / who’ll not come again.”

Pyrre isn’t sure she’s ever been in like. And if she does not find somebody who can attract such interest from her, or fails to kill that somebody, her order gives her to their god, the God of Death. Pyrre’s not scared to pass away, but she hates to fail, and so, as her trial is defined to begin, she returns to the city of her birth in the hope of finding like . and finishing it on the advantage of her sword.

‘A organic and richly detailed globe filled with elite soldier-assassins, mystic warrior monks, serpentine politics, and ancient secrets.’Library Journal, starred review, on The Emperor’s Blades