𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 – 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧

Author:C.F. Iggulden (Pseudonym), Conn Iggulden, 352 pages, Hardcover
The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts, spies and memories, clinging to a peace that shifts and crumbles. The people of the city endure what they cannot change.

Here, amongst old feuds, a plot is hatched to kill a king. It will summon strangers to the city – Elias Post, a hunter, Tellius, an old swordsman banished from his home, Arthur, a boy who cannot speak, Daw Threefold, a chancer and gambler, Vic Deeds, who feels no guilt – and Nancy, a girl whose talent might be the undoing of them all.

Their arrival inside the walls as the sun sets will set off a series of explosive events. Before the sun returns, five destinies will have been made – and lost – in Darien.