Part of The Red Queen's War
First published 2016
Jalan Kendeth has survived Hell once. Now he has to go back. He carries Loki's key, a thing that opens any lock, any door, and he intends to use it to walk out of the underworld and return to the life he actually wants: wine, women, and gambling debts. Snorri ver Snagason has his own reason for making the same journey. He wants his family back. The two men push through the same horrors for very different reasons, and that gap between them is where most of the story lives. Above ground, things are no better. The Wheel of Osheim spins faster with every chapter, grinding toward a collapse that will take the living world with it. The Dead King's army is moving. The many mirrors of the Lady Blue multiply her reach. Jalan keeps insisting he is a coward, and the evidence keeps proving him wrong in the worst possible ways. This is the third and final book in the Red Queen's War trilogy, and it pays off the long tension between who Jalan says he is and what he actually does when the moment arrives.
Genres: adventure, fantasy, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy
Vibes: dark, epic, fast-paced, gritty, intense
Tropes: character-growth, found-family, journey-quest, reluctant-hero
Setting: Hell, underworld
656 pages · Hardcover · Harper Voyager
Content warnings: gore, violence