A circus showgirl's family is at the center of a life and death conspiracy involving powerful creatures and the gods themselves. Tangled up in reluctant partnerships, she pulls up the theocracy's gilded façade.
Mother Omera blights and consumes all that is arcane, creeping across the empire. To save humanity, Astrid of Passion betrays her mother, but she needs the right kind of necromancer, and a former circus acrobat to aid her in the sin.
