Series: Book 5 in the Five Gods series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fantasy, Lang:en
Summary
In this sequel to the novella “Penric’s
Mission”, the injured Penric, a Temple sorcerer and
learned divine, tries to guide the betrayed General Arisaydia
and his widowed sister Nikys across the last hundred miles of
hostile Cedonia to safety in the Duchy of Orbas. In the town of
Sosie the fugitive party encounters unexpected delays, and even
more unexpected opportunities and hazards, as the courtesan
Mira of Adria, one of the ten dead women whose imprints make up
the personality of the chaos demon Desdemona, comes to the fore
with her own special expertise.