Beneath the Twisted Trees

The fourth book in The Song of Shattered Sands series--an epic fantasy with a desert setting, filled with rich worldbuilding and pulse-pounding action.

When a battle to eradicate the Thirteenth Tribe goes awry, the kingdoms bordering the desert metropolis of Sharakhaisee the city as weak and ripe for conquest. eda, now leader of the Shieldwives, a band of skilled desertswordswomen, hopes to use the growing chaos to gain freedom for Sehid-Alaz, the ancient, undying king of herpeople. Freeing him is only the beginning, however.

Like all the people of her tribe on that fateful night four centuriesearlier, Sehid-Alaz was cursed, turned into an asir, a twisted, miserable creature beholden to the kings of Sharakhaito truly free her king, eda must break the chains that bind him.

As Sharakhai's enemies close in and the assault on the city begins, eda works feverishly to unlock the mysteries ofthe asirim's curse. But danger lies everywhere. Enemy forces roam the city; the Blade Maidens close in on her; herown father, one of the kings of Sharakhai, wants eda to hang.

Worst of all, the gods themselves have begun to takenotice of eda's pursuits.

When the combined might of Sharakhai and the desert gods corner the survivors of the Thirteenth Tribe in a mountainfastness, the very place that nearly saw their annihilation centuries ago, eda knows the time has come. She wasonce an elite warrior in service to the kings of Sharakhai. She has been an assassin in dark places.

A weapon poisedto strike from the shadows. A voice from the darkness, striving to free her people.

No longer.

Now she's going to lead.

The age of the Kings is coming to an end . .