New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zelie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart. When Zelie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zelie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland. Then everything changes when Zelie meets King Baldyr, her true captor and the man who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her. The ruler of the Skulls, Baldyr''s quest to harness Zelie''s strength sends Zelie, Amari, and Tzain searching for allies in foreign lands. But as Baldyr closes in, catastrophe charges Orisha''s shores. It will take everything Zelie has to face her final enemy and save her people before the Skulls annihilate them for good.

Autorentext

Named one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people, Tomi Adeyemi is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Nigerian-American writer and storyteller based in New York, NY. After graduating from Harvard University with an honors degree in English literature, she studied West African mythology, religion, and culture in Salvador, Brazil.

Her first novel, Children of Blood and Bone, debuted at number 1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Its highly anticipated sequel, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, also debuted at number 1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Tomi's Children of Blood and Bone trilogy is being developed into a feature film with Paramount Pictures.

In 2020, she was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media, and her website has been named one of the 101 best websites for writers by Writer's Digest.

Zusammenfassung

New allies rise.
The Blood Moon nears.
Zélie faces her final enemy.
The king who hunts her heart.

When Zélie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zélie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffick her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland.

Then everything changes when Zélie meets King Baldyr, her true captor and the man who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her. The ruler of the Skulls, Baldyr's quest to harness Zélie's strength sends Zélie, Amari, and Tzain searching for allies in foreign lands.

But as Baldyr closes in, catastrophe charges Orïsha's shores. It will take everything Zélie has to face her final enemy and save her people before the Skulls annihilate them for good.