<p><b>''Megan Whalen Turner is one of my all-time favorite writers . . . impossible to put down'' Holly Black, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Cruel Prince</i></b><br><br>Neither accepted nor beloved, Eugenides is the uneasy linchpin of a truce on the Lesser Peninsula, where he has risen to be high king of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis.<br><br>As the treacherous Baron Erondites schemes anew and a prophecy appears to foretell the death of the king, the ruthless Mede empire prepares to strike.<br><br>And only Eugenides, now more cunning than ever, can save them all . . .<br><br><b>Praise for Megan Whalen Turner</b><br><br><b>''The Queen''s Thief books awe and inspire me'' Laini Taylor, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the <i>Daughter of Smoke and Bone</i> novels and <i>Strange the Dreamer</i></b><br><br>''Megan Whalen Turner writes vivid, immersive, heartbreaking fantasy'' Leigh Bardugo, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Six of Crows</i> and <i>Cro