The Goddesses' Crucible
Part of The Sleeping Goddesses Saga — a complete four-book tetralogy
A goddess fell in fire to buy them their victory. A goddess walked into the dark and did not return. The dead are walking — in mirrors, in dreams, in the mouths of those who loved them. In the old realm of Irkalla, where Hecate sealed a sister of the Twelve three centuries ago, a door has begun to open. Beatrice runs a network across three nations and a court case that may turn the wealth of the world. Tonight a goddess walks a rope above ten thousand kneeling strangers, and Ishtar calls her by name — then an old man in a velvet doublet pours her wine and asks for three small favors. Three impossible tasks. Three lives to spend. And the only road home to the man she has not finished a sentence with. Sebastian has crossed a winter sea without telling her, walking to his death to keep a promise made to a dying friend, and now stands on a wall that will not hold. Mark wears a crown his father would not have recognised and signs orders his father would not have signed. The green eyes of a woman across the council table measure him every time he speaks. To win the war he will give up something very dear. He has not yet admitted what. Emile descends into the underworld in search of the woman he loves, the one the world believes dead. The dead do not welcome the living. But the dead, sometimes, remember. When spring comes, count the crowns. Then count the wearers. The goddesses never give freely.
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Book 3 of 4 in The Sleeping Goddesses Saga.