<p>Book 1 of <em>Empire''s Legacy,</em><strong> Silver Medal, Historical Fantasy Book of the Year 2019</strong></p><p><strong>(Box Set), </strong>Coffee Pot Book Club Awards</p><p><br></p><p><span>''Fans of Guy Gavriel Kay will love Thorpe''s work.'' Anya Pavelle, author of The Moon Hunters.</span></p><p><strong>Once there was an Eastern Empire of grandeur and beauty and learning. Then it disappeared, leaving only snatches of story and faint memories in a little sea-bordered land far to the west, where invasion from both north and south now threatens. Could the Eastern Empire still exist - and if it does, if it can be found, will it come to the aid of its long-forgotten province? </strong></p><p><br></p><p>In the first book of the award-winning <em>Empire''s Legacy</em> trilogy, Leste, an island nation, grows short of food. Raiding a nearby land, rich in grain and livestock, while its army is occupied on its northern frontie