The Instruments of Control
Livia Serafini must die.
To the Church she is a heretic, tried in absentia and sentenced to burn.
To her brother Carlo, she stands as a threat to his corrupt rule and a
symbol of resistance. To her new "allies" in the east, she is a pawn to
be played and sacrificed as they see fit. They don't hear the whispers
that follow her in the streets: whispers of hope, and the name of a
long-dead saint.
When Livia rises up to fight, she will not rise alone.
Across the ocean, Felix struggles for control of his family's fate against the crime lord Basilio Grimaldi. Basilio is wealthy, ruthless, and the
master of a hundred killers. All Felix has are his wits and his courage. It won't be enough. To break free, and to save the lives of everyone he loves, he'll have to face the darkness that followed him home from
Winter's Reach.
And as the Owl's horrific vengeance unfolds, her coven teeters on the brink of civil war. All the dominoes are in place
now, lined up from the frozen north to the swamps and ruins of a dead
empire, and set to tumble at one man's command. When they do, a world
will fall with them.
