Nikola Muckajev
The truth about the Crowns has spread, and Briarwake is tearing itself apart. Queen Sereda holds four locks and demands the final three before the sleeping First Beasts wake. Alderhearth prepares for siege. Sablewake remembers every mainland betrayal. Asterreach can see too many possible futures. As Ivo’s maps become weapons and Pip’s roadwardens become soldiers, Mara discovers that the man directing Sereda’s war is also the man who murdered the High King: her father.