The Priory of the Orange Tree - LtdFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Season, a trailblazing, epic high fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons and the women who must lead the fight to save it. A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction but assassins are getting

'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' Ali Smith

the new King of the Northmen

Detective Inspector Grace Archer and her caustic DS

For Arthur Rowe the charity f

Well then DS Harbinder Kaur thinks that maybe there is no such thing as an unsuspicious death after all

causing an unwitting and devastating insight

The survivors won't return for ten years

An ex-villain has made contact because his wife has been kidnapped: he's sure it must be the corrupt policeman that he helped put away

the prodigal son of the village and a symbol of this now fast-changing world

hijacking in history

A concubine is strangled in the Sultan's palace harem

A powerful