num_pages: 432
description: Charm is a witch and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House and the secrets of their marrow.Charm is a prisoner and a survivor. Charm tends the trees and their clattering fruit for the sake of her children painstakingly grown and regrown with its fruit: Shame Justice Desire Pride and Pain. Charm is a whore and a madam. The wealthy and powerful of Borenguard come to her house to buy time with the girls who aren't real.Except on Tuesdays which is when the Emperor himself lays claim to his mistress Charm herself.But nowCharm is also the only person who can keep an empire together as the Emperor summons her to his deathbed and charges her with choosing which of his awful faithless sons will carry on the empireby discovering which one is responsible for his own murder.If she does this last thing she will finally have what has been denied her since the fall of Inshilher freedom. But she will also be betraying the ghosts past and present that live on within her heart.Charm must choose. Her dead Emperors will or the whispers of her own ghosts. Justice for the empire or her own revenge.
language: English
title: The Bone Orchard
publisher: Tor Books