num_pages: 192
description: A knight an immortal and an actor walk into a palacethe immortal doesn't walk out.The City of Bones has a mother in Death.And no one believes this more than Sir Desmond Edenry. For four years he has fought the imperial city's wars. And now with the passing of an estranged uncle Desmond finds himself inheriting enough gold to dam the sea. But once in the imperial city itself to collect this new fortune Desmond is thrown into a game of cat and mouse. A relic of his homeland has gone missing and duty demands he get it back.Crowns are cages.Laudilas de Glas is trapped by his family's royal ambitions. He is an actor who wants nothing more than to return to the stage with its scripted lines and loud applause. But when the diary of a long-forgotten queen is stolen right out from underneath its keeper's nose Laudilas is ordered to retrieve it. But something's wrong. This is no ordinary theft. Laudilas has been the puppet of greater men for long enough to know when the strings are being pulled by someone who has planned their game too wellor for too long. With immortality comes curiosity.But what Kennet Zur wants is revenge. One thousand years ago the imperial city made him bleed and now he wants to break the blade that cut him forever. But he can't do it alone. So as the hourglass sands slide into the Night of the Red Lady Mother Death he sets his pawns loose. Two men. One stolen book to find. Ten centuries worth of waiting.Riyria meets Medici in this epic fantasy/dark comedy mashup where a heist gone wrong on the night of an imperial city's most macabre holiday will forever change three impossibly different lives.
language: English
title: Illuminare
publisher: None