House of Sky and Breath

Several months after uncovering the truth behind the murders in Crescent City, Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to live quietly — but peace is short-lived. A rebel human organisation called Ophion is gathering support against the Asteri who rule the world, and Bryce finds herself drawn into their orbit against her better judgement. Meanwhile Hunt is navigating a fragile, conditional freedom while Ruhn Danaan, Bryce's half-brother, becomes entangled in a covert telepathic correspondence with a mysterious woman he knows only by a code name. As the political ground shifts and old alliances fracture, Bryce begins to piece together a larger truth about the Asteri, the nature of power, and a world her people were told never existed. The novel ends with a reality-shattering development that fundamentally changes the scope of the Crescent City series and its connections to Sarah J. Maas's wider fictional universe.