The Shadowed Sun

Ten years after the events of The Killing Moon, Gujaareh, the city of dreams, is ruled by the Kisuati Protectorate. A deadly plague has begun to strike its people: victims die screaming in their sleep, killed by nightmares nobody can explain. The Gujaareen want to rise against their occupiers, but they have known peace for too long to remember how.

Two outcasts stand between the city and its ruin. Hanani is the first woman admitted to the priesthood of the dream goddess, a Sharer-Apprentice who has hidden much of herself to fit in at the Hetawa. Wanahomen is the exiled heir of the late king, living among the desert Banbarra and determined to take back what is his. Each has reasons to distrust the other, but the city will not be freed, nor the dreamers saved, unless they find the source of the plague.

The second and final novel of N. K. Jemisin's Dreamblood duology, The Shadowed Sun can be read after The Killing Moon. It trades the first book's assassin-priests for questions of healing and faith, conquest and resistance, and of who gets to define a people.