num_pages: 452
description: Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.Laia is determined to break into Kaufthe Empires most secure and dangerous prisonto save her brother who is the key to the Scholars survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.But dark forces human and otherworldly work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus the merciless Commandant the sadistic Warden of Kauf and most heartbreaking of all HeleneEliass former friend and the Empires newest Blood Shrike.Bound to Marcuss will Helene faces a torturous mission of her ownone that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escapeand kill them both.
language: English
title: A Torch Against the Night
publisher: Razorbill