'A magnificent, sweeping epic' JENNIFER SAINT, Sunday Times -bestselling author of A RIADNE 'Shannon is simply a master of the genre ' C. S. PACAT , New York Times -bestselling author of DARK RISE 'A tremendous triumph' LONDON SHAH, award-winning author of the LIGHT OF THE ABYSS series ___ A return to the world of Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times_ and New York Times -bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree ** ___** Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow - exactly where she wants to be. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the