THE HOUSE OF THE DRAGON MEETS SUCCESSION IN AN EPIC REIMAGINING OF THE MAHABHARATA 'An
unforgettable wild journey set in re-imagined Vedic India' SF Book Review 'Like Game of Thrones
in an Indian alternative universe... exhilarating... heralds the arrival of a special new
talent' Dan Jones 'Mahabharata imbued with A Song of Ice and Fire The First Law & Malazan
Book of the Fallen' Novel Notions SOME BALLADS ARE INKED IN BLOOD Bled dry by violent
confrontations with the Magadhan Empire the Mathuran Republic simmers on the brink of
oblivion. Senator Krishna and his third wife Satyabhama have put their plans in motion both
within and beyond the Republic's blood-soaked borders to protect it from total annihilation.
But they are soon to discover that neither gold nor alliances last forever - and that they are
not the only players on the board. Mati Pirate-Princess of Kalinga has decided to mend her
ways and become a good wife. But old habits die hard especially when one habitually uses
murder to settle old scores. Brooding and beautiful Karna hopes to bury his brutal past but
finds that destiny is a miser when it comes to granting second chances. Hero-turned-torturer
Shakuni limps through a path of daggers. Meanwhile his foes and woes multiply leaving little
time for vengeance. Their lives are about to become yet more difficult as a cast of sinister
queens naive kings pious assassins and ravenous priests are converging where the Son of
Darkness is prophesied to rise... even as forgotten Gods prepare to play their hand.
