Echoes and Empires Series

In this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling Echoes and Empires, Joss and Jericho team up with some of their greatest enemies to bring an end to the queen’s empire of lies.

Josslyn Drake is in over her head—again.

After fleeing the Queen’s palace with Prince Elian in tow, she’d hoped to finally find a way to solve both of their magical problems in one fell swoop, with the help of criminal-turned-ally Jericho Nox. But Valery, Jericho’s boss—and a notoriously powerful mage—has other plans.

It soon becomes clear that Valery can’t, or won’t, provide assistance. And as Joss’s relationship with Jericho becomes more confusing than ever, she realizes that she’ll have to find her own way out of this magical mess, with or without help from those around her.

Amid high tensions, Joss sets out to learn to control the memory magic—along with her own natural powers. As the struggle between Lord Banyon and the Queen threatens the people Joss cares about, she stumbles onto hints of a monumental royal secret. Her unwanted power just might hold the answers she needs to solve all her problems—but she’ll have to work quickly, because the fate of an empire hangs in the balance.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Falling Kingdoms series comes a sweeping fantasy where a socialite is infected with illegal magic and is forced to conspire with a notorious (if irksomely handsome) thief in order to get rid of it.

“The witty banter and the enemies-to-lovers dynamic . . . are undeniably charming.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Draws you in from page one with forbidden magic, an irrepressible heroine bent on discovering the truth, and a motley collection of characters who will keep you guessing.”—Elly Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Frostblood

Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it’s rare, illegal, and always deadly.

So when she’s caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queen’s Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magic—one that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil warlock—she finds herself living her worst nightmare. Joss needs the magic removed before it corrupts her soul and kills her. But in Ironport, the cost of doing magic is death, and seeking help might mean scheduling her own execution. There’s nobody she can trust.

Nobody, that is, except wanted criminal Jericho Nox, who offers her a deal: his help extracting the magic in exchange for the magic itself. And though she’s not thrilled to be working with a thief, especially one as infuriating (and infuriatingly handsome) as Jericho, Joss is desperate enough to accept.

But Jericho is nothing like Joss expects. The closer she grows to Jericho and the more she learns of the world outside her pampered life in the city, the more Joss begins to question the beliefs she’s always taken for granted. Because if what she sees in these memories is the truth, then everything she’s ever known—about right and wrong, about power and magic, and even about herself—has been a staggering, inescapable lie.