Book 11 in the Courtlight series
Ciardis has seen the goddess for what she is -- abloodthirsty deity bent on breaking them before eliminating everyone Ciardisknows and loves.
She, the daemoni prince, and Sebastian, the sitting emperor of Algardis, haveset a trap. A plan in motion that will unleash a wave of magic across the landin quantities not seen since the Initiate Wars.
Ciardis knows this is their only hope to defeat a god, but she can only praythat she doesn't do the goddess's work in the process by inadvertently killingthe citizens of the empire that she had vowed to protect.
But the battle has begun and she'll do what she has to protect the people shecares about - her family, her friends, her empire. When all the gods feel freeto intervene, you do what you have to make sure that the one which wants todestroy you never makes the same mistake twice. In a battle between an immortaland a mortal, the humans are coming to win.
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