First published 2014
Jorg Ancrath is nineteen years old and he is done waiting. He rides toward Congression, where the lords of the Hundred gather to argue over the bones of a dead empire, and he intends to walk out as emperor. The road is long and the memories that surface along it are worse than the enemies ahead. Jorg has never pretended his intentions were good, and the bodies behind him prove it. But the Dead King is moving too, pushing his army of corpses across a cracked world that may not survive what comes next. Jorg has seen fragments of the future. The people who see it clearly tend to catch fire first. At Congression he will stand before a hundred rulers who despise him, a boy king with blood on his hands and a argument none of them can answer. He knows what following him has cost the men who tried it. He will spend them again if he has to. The final volume of the Broken Empire trilogy ends not with a rescue but with a reckoning, and Jorg Ancrath is the last man who should be trusted to deliver it.
Genres: adventure, fantasy, adult-fiction, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, epic, gritty, intense, morally-ambiguous
Tropes: anti-hero, chosen-one, enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Congression, Hundred, Broken Empire
592 pages · Paperback · HarperVoyager
Content warnings: death, gore, graphic-violence, murder, violence