A Court of Knives

The empress is dead. The will named two heirs. The knives choose neither.

Restored to a name twenty years erased, Lucan Corvinus is now the most wanted

man in the empire — accused of murdering the woman he tried to save. With

Sigrun Halvard beside him he rides for the top of the world to find the one

living witness who can prove who destroyed his father, while the Order's quiet

men ride the same road ahead of them.

Behind him, a ghost ship sails into harbour with her crew standing dead at

their stations. In the capital, an old man with a black bee on his cuff teaches

a new emperor how to lose an empire. And beyond the edge of the maps, the cold

that stopped that crew comes south, eight miles a day, patient as arithmetic.

The court has knives. The north has winter. And something out in the white has

learned to wear a dead man's face.

Book Two of the Draconate Saga — epic fantasy of dragons, morally gray houses,

and a slow-burning love story between two people who both expect to die young.

Best read after A Throne of Cinders.