The bestselling author of the ground-breaking novels Under heaven and River of stars evokes a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, come two very different people: a young artist travelling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request - and possibly to do more - and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman, posing as a doctor's wife, but sent by Seressa as a spy.
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