"We are the wolves."
The world has known precarious peace for generations, but the unexplained assassination of one powerful noblewoman unveils an immortal conspiracy more than ten thousand years in the making.
Endarion and Estrid, jaded generals who share a complicated romantic past, are drawn back onto the battlefield when the opposing empires they serve declare war. Once lovers, now rivals, they are each the other’s greatest enemy.
Meanwhile, in a viper’s nest of a city older than humanity itself, Endarion’s niece Sephara hunts down the assassin in hopes of halting the conflict before it can engulf the entire continent. Her investigation will force her on a collision course with backstabbing nobles, immortal rulers thought long dead, and assassins who wield the very shadows themselves.
And Endarion’s youngest daughter, bastard-born Tali, may be removed from the war the rest of her family fights, but she’s just awoken to incomprehensible magic… and in doing so earned the attention of sinister immortal factions.
Expect: complex characters who sometimes do cruel things, armoured dogs of war, fraught politics, incredibly dysfunctional families, shadow assassins, a sheltered protagonist discovering world-changing magical abilities, military campaigns with all the associated gore and grit, moving cities, immortal foes, and a system rooted in elemental magic.
