Stormfall

One day, my dear daughter, you will destroy the world. After being forced from her home five years ago, Alana Zaya has finally been given the opportunity to return and claim her rightful place on the Okaron throne. When her voyage is waylaid by pirates, she soon finds herself stranded at sea, surrounded by strangers harboring dark secrets. But hers are perhaps the darkest of all. Across the world, Rae Toma is a warrior who can't walk away from a fight. After years of using her skills to rebel against the regime that trained her, her treachery is revealed, forcing her to flee into the Shatter-a maze of islands from which no one has ever returned. There, she finds Nur Del Sue, a Stormwitch on a mission to prove herself in a world determined to ignore her. Forced from their homes, can these characters survive long enough to uncover the deadly mysteries at the heart of their world? Discover what Kirkus calls "an electric work of epic fantasy," where allies are scarce and almost everyone will kill for power.

Return to the sprawling fantasy saga that Kirkus Reviews called "an electric work of epic fantasy," where three powerful and morally gray women will either save their world-or bring it closer to destruction. Power destroys power. Separated from everyone and everything she knows, Rae Toma is once again lost to the Shatter. This time, however, the Compass has been claimed-and there is no hope of escape. Now the bearer of Eriysha's Compass, Nur Del Sue returns to her islands-where old enemies await. Caught between the goddess's task and her desire for revenge, the Stormwitch soon realizes that she will need to place her trust in the very people who betrayed her. Upon reaching the shores of Okaro, Alana Zaya finds a tangle of politics and deception left behind by her mother. Facing opposition from all sides and denied by her homeland, the Queen of Darkness is pushed to the breaking point. Can these three women avert disaster yet again, or is their-and the universe's-luck running out?