An Amazon Best Book of the Year The final book in the gripping Sunday Times bestselling series By way of a staggering deception Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion & is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance The future rests on her if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz Common enemy common cause When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world the unthinkable becomes essential & Karou & Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream & they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people And perhaps for themselves Toward a new way of living & maybe even love But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing A vicious queen is hunting Akiva & in the skies of Eretz something is happening Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned ceaselessly circling & a deep sense of wrong pervades the world What power can bruise the sky From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin & beyond humans chimaera & seraphim will fight strive love & die in an epic theater that transcends good & evil right & wrong friend & enemy At the very barriers of space & time what do gods & monsters dream of ? & does anything else matter