Cover Reveal: 'Skullsworn' By Brian Staveley, Story Set In The World Of Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne

Since the release of The Last Mortal Bond, which I am currently immersing my self into, I was always wondering what's next from this guy! I am not ready to close the curtain for Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne series. How come he has no other series or no new book coming out? Until of course news came out that another book from Brian Staveley is coming our way next year.

The new book, titled Skullsworn, is a standalone, but will definitely pit us still in the world of The Emperor’s Blades, or in Annur and its neighboring countries. And as you may guess it has to do with the priests of Ananshael, the God of Death.

Check out the cover of Skullsworn by Brian Staveley.

Synopsis

Brian Staveley’s new standalone returns to the critically acclaimed Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne universe, following a priestess attempting to join the ranks of the God of Death.

Pyrre Lakatur doesn’t like the word skullsworn. It fails to capture the faith and grace, the peace and beauty of her devotion to the God of Death. She is not, to her mind, an assassin, not a murderer--she is a priestess. At least, she will be a priestess if she manages to pass her final trial.

The problem isn’t the killing. Pyrre has been killing and training to kill, studying with some of the most deadly men and women in the world, since she was eight. The problem, strangely, is love. To pass her Trial, Pyrre has ten days to kill the ten people enumerated in an ancient song, including "the one you love / who will not come again."

Pyrre is not sure she’s ever been in love. If she were a member of a different religious order, a less devoted, disciplined order, she might cheat. The Priests of Ananshael, however, don’t look kindly on cheaters. If Pyrre fails to find someone to love, or fails to kill that someone, they will give her to the god.

Pyrre’s not afraid to die, but she hates to quit, hates to fail, and so, with a month before her trial begins, she returns to the city of her birth, the place where she long ago offered an abusive father to the god and abandoned a battered brother—in the hope of finding love...and ending it on the edge of her sword.

"A complex and richly detailed world filled with elite soldier-assassins, mystic warrior monks, serpentine politics, and ancient secrets." —Library Journal, starred review, on The Emperor's Blades

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Skullsworn by Brian Staveley will hit book stores on April 25, 2017.