The Providence of Fire
Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, Book II
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Publisher Description
The deadly conspiracy against the Annurian Empire's ruling family deepens in this gripping sequel to The Emperor's Blades.
Adare, having learned the identity of her father's assassin, flees the Dawn Palace to seek allies and challenge the coup against her family. Though few trust her, belief in Intarra's touch upon her rallies the people to help retake the capital city. As armies prepare to clash, the threat of barbarian hordes compels rival forces to unite against a common enemy.
Unknown to Adare, her brother Valyn, a renegade elite soldier, has allied with the invading nomads. The terrible choices each sibling has made may make war between them inevitable.
Kaden, the rightful heir to the Unhewn Throne, has infiltrated the Annurian capital with two strange companions. The secret history they know could save Annur or destroy it in The Providence of Fire, the second novel in Brian Staveley's Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, an epic fantasy series of war, intrigue, and sacrifice.
Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne
The Emperor's Blades
The Providence of Fire
The Last Mortal Bond
Other books in the world of the Unhewn Throne
Skullsworn (forthcoming)
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Three long-separated children of a murdered emperor scramble to secure allies in this sprawling sequel to 2014's The Emperor's Blades. Adare, having mistakenly persecuted the Church of Intarra, identifies the true leader of the coup and flees to recruit the religious exiles. Elite soldier Valyn, saving his older brother from a massacre, plots a campaign to cross steppes teeming with barbarian Urghul horse riders, hoping to find and execute a murderer. Kaden, still struggling with the monastic training that allows him to use an ancient system of teleport gates, discovers that the legendary gate-builders and foes of humanity are alive and taking part in human affairs. As are the gods, personally. Staveley nicely complicates the moral scheme with plausible-sounding villains and shaky political alliances, but the appearance of immortals and legends threatens to drown out his mortal protagonists, and the realizations and reversals seem to stem from plot needs more than character development.
