The war is won. The dying starts now.

Quintus Marcellus Aurelianus comes home from five years on the frontier able to name every boy he buried and unable to say what that victory bought. Waiting in Valonia: a brother on their father’s throne, magistrates counting votes, a priestess sworn to a god who forbids her, and the oldest friend he still cannot read.

What you are buying

A first edition trade paperback, signed on the title page, packed and shipped by me.

I pack these by hand in rigid mailers, so allow a few days longer than you would from a warehouse. If you want it inscribed to someone by name, put the name in the order notes and I will write it.