She saw through him first. What she did about it will cost her everything.
When the most powerful king on the continent arrives at Mund with a marriage proposal, every person in the room sees a guest. Lyka sees the siege already forming behind his courtesy—in the way his eyes measure the terraced fields instead of the people, in the question no one thought to ask about why a conqueror needs a wife from a fertile valley he could simply take.
She is right. No one believes her yet.
Lyka is Mund's sharpest strategist—and the one its institutions have never formally acknowledged. Her brothers are the king and the sword. She is the map. And the map shows only one path left: a plan that cannot be made lawfully, by people who were raised to believe legality and righteousness were the same thing.
They are not the same thing. The war has made that clear.
Echoes of Destiny is a mythic South Asian political epic about three siblings who built their lives around each other—and what happens when the world forces them to spend what they cannot replace. For readers of The Poppy War, Jade City, and The Traitor Baru Cormorant.
A mythic South Asian political epic rooted in dharma, consequence, and the quiet brilliance of a woman who sees what others refuse to face.
Genres:
- Epic Fantasy
- Political Fantasy
- Mythology
- South Asian Fantasy
- Slow Burn
