**AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!**THE CHAINS WILL BREAK. THE GODS WILL ANSWER. For three hundred years the wild island of Croi? has been beholden to the Empire of the Answering. Clans have been subjugated, their language outlawed, their religion reduced to a whisper of fugitive priests. Until one day, the island's prayers are answered. The Gods return. In their way, the dispossessed and vengeful struggle for power.
A ruthless priestess rallies the faithful, offering a simple choice - believe, or die - while the Empire's Queen makes the first move in a long and dangerous game. Yet one woman will decide their fate .
**AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!**THE CHAINS WILL BREAK. THE GODS WILL ANSWER. For three hundred years the wild island of Croi? has been beholden to the Empire of the Answering. Clans have been subjugated, their language outlawed, their religion reduced to a whisper of fugitive priests. Until one day, the island's prayers are answered. The Gods return. In their way, the dispossessed and vengeful struggle for power.
A ruthless priestess rallies the faithful, offering a simple choice - believe, or die - while the Empire's Queen makes the first move in a long and dangerous game. Yet one woman will decide their fate .
