Enemy
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 partnership.
Snow and her new partner, Veiko, together with the legion scout Dekklis, uncover a conspiracy that will destroy the Republic from within. It seems that the goddess is back from wherever dead gods go. She has not forgotten the Republic, and she wants revenge.
Loyal Dekklis will do anything to save the Republic, and Snow reluctantly agrees to help — until she realizes that “anything” means sacrificing Veiko. Now Snow must decide whether her partner’s life is worth betraying her allies and damning the Republic to war.
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K. Eason
K. Eason has always been drawn to questions that live in the gray areas, what happens when myth collides with politics, when technology wears the mask of magic, and when the stories we inherit don’t quite fit the world we live in. That curiosity has carried into every corner of her fiction, from spacefaring fairy-tale heroines to murder-mystery mecha stalking the ruins of forgotten civilizations.
Her first trilogy, On the Bones of Gods, introduced readers to a world where Viking-like magic and Roman-shaped empire clashed in brutal, beautiful ways. With The Thorne Chronicles she leapt into space, blending the wit of a fairy tale with the grit of political science fiction in How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse and its sequel. Most recently, The Weep (Nightwatch on the Hinterlands and Nightwatch Over Windscar) fused alien ruins, detective intrigue, and magical technology into stories that feel at once intimate and expansive. Across all these series runs a constant thread: a fascination with power, privilege, and the choices that shape identity.
On the Bones of Gods
On the Bones of Gods consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
