The Champion of Rose

The Kingdom of Rose has survived long enough to become something real. Aboard the Palace of Chains, the dead labor beside the living, Selestra's church grows around its princess, and Delil's gardens spread through the captured ship while Voltra quietly prepares for whatever comes next. Then a visiting Chimera arrives with a Salat thrall at his heel, revealing that Antioch was never the end of their people's enslavement and giving Azessha another reason to hate the empire that scattered them.When Voltra brings the Palace to Endrana, the kingdom gains more than another battlefield. An abandoned intelligence named Jill offers her machines, factories, and hatred of the Corvid, while Azessha and Delil discover that their bodies no longer limit where they can hunt. Every corpse becomes another soldier, another pair of eyes, and another place for the garden to grow as the war spreads through one of the Theocracy's most important worlds.Endrana, however, was never Voltra's true objective. Beyond it waits Haven, the beautiful and sacred heart of the Corvid Theocracy, protected by fleets, temples, and the faith of billions. Addonai himself waits beneath its mountains, and after everything he did to the Salat, everything his church took from Antioch, and everything Azessha lost along the way, Voltra finally intends to deliver her thrall exactly what she has been asking for: a chance to kill God.