Beyond the Shadows

Cenaria is under siege, and Logan Gyre sits on its throne. Kylar Stern, the assassin known as the Night Angel, has made an enemy no blade has faced before: a goddess who means to destroy everything he cares about. His task is to kill her before she reaches his friends.

Kylar does not act alone or free of ties. Magic binds him to Vi, a former assassin, and he remains devoted to Elene. The war pulls all three toward its centre, and the choices he makes for one of them put the others at risk.

The story moves between several viewpoints across the world of Midcyru. Dorian is now Godking of Khalidor. Solon returns to Seth to face his past. At the Black Barrow, the Vurdmeister Neph Dada and a renegade Khalidorian prince gather to raise a terrible power.

This is the third and final book of the Night Angel Trilogy, after The Way of Shadows and Shadow's Edge, and it draws the earlier plotlines together, so it reads best after those two. It is dark fantasy at a long, fast pace, and the question that drives it is whether one assassin can end a goddess before she ends everyone he loves.