Empress of the Fall is Book One of The Sunsurge Quartet. Return to Urte, the world of the Moontide Quartet for another epic journey into darkness.
THE EMPEROR IS DEAD – LONG LIVE THE EMPRESS!
With Emperor Constant and his court destroyed, the West is on the brink of devastating civil war. The Rondian Empire’s only hope for stability is a young convent girl who knows nothing of the wider world – but she is hiding a deadly secret.
The imperial throne is not the only one in jeopardy. In the East, fresh from his overwhelming triumph over the third Rondian Crusade, the peace-making Sultan Salim is facing demands for an impossible holy war of vengeance against the West, that are dividing his court and kingdom.
And lurking in the darkness, orchestrating both power struggles, is the Puppeteer, a masked mage with a diabolic power at his fingertips, whose lust for domination takes Urte to the brink of cataclysm . . .