A vivid and richly detailed science-fantasy epic set against the backdrop of a terrifying past.
In Part 1: South, Josephine, the child of a conquered nation, is delivered to the foreign capital of Cidoreis as payment for her kingdom’s peace. Imprisoned within the Celestial Palace that looms above city, she delves into the lost knowledge of humanity’s past, cultivating her gift of perfect memory as a path towards escape.
Josephine’s sole hope of freedom lies in the Fleet of the Five Winds, an armada of colossal treasure ships meant to subjugate the known world beneath a tide of gold and glory. To claim it, however, she must first confront the vast conspiracies surging beneath the facade of peace, at the heart of which nests the dreaded School of the Helix: an ancient order of geneticists who will stop at nothing to command her power, and whose tendrils clutch at every shadowed corner of the empire.
