The Mirror of Ash: 2

Book 2 from The Instruments of the First Night series, The Mirror of Ash. The Mirror of Ash is broken. Its shards have scattered across courts, war camps, hidden councils, and royal hands, each one reflecting stolen futures and buried claims that rulers are willing to kill to reclaim. In Halemyr, a king is dying and the realm is splintering around the question of succession. Maerin Ostell is drawn into a dangerous struggle for truth inside a court where records can condemn faster than swords. Kael Odran, still bound to the Ossuary Key, searches for a way to survive an artifact that no longer merely opens doors. Mara Qadir returns to the necromancer orders with a doctrine that unsettles both the dead and those who command them. As Mirror shards pass from hand to hand, kings, guilds, assassins, shamans, and hidden powers begin making war over futures that may never have belonged to them. The ancient enemy has not returned. The living have become dangerous enough.