In the heart of the Illhari Republic… Snowdenaelikk returns to Illharek, the city--and life--she rejected, looking for help against the vengeful dragon god rising on the border. With her comes Veiko, her outlander partner who can talk to the dead. But instead of allies, Snow finds conspiracy. The enemy's already in Illharek. And when the city falls, the dragon will be waiting. Praise for K. Eason's Books "This story delights from cover to cover....

The Illhari Republic rests on the bones of gods, telling tales of conquest and forgetting its once -- bloody devotion to its most powerful goddess. Snowdenaelikk, half-blood conjuror and smuggler, cares less about history than the silver she can win with sharp metal and sharper wits. But when the local legion blames her for burning a village, an outlander with a sense of honor intervenes, and Snow finds herself tangled in politics and an unwelcome...