Ghost in the Serpent
Ghost in the Serpent by Jonathan Moeller
The continuing adventures of Caina. Spoilers ahead for the earlier books.
It opens with her being ill, and sending Kylon off with the Emperor nonetheless, in the retinue for a state visit, because he'd be bored stiff. Then she finds out that she was, in fact, poisoned, the clinching evidence being a new attack.
She, of course, investigates. It involves opera rehearsals, an issue she and Kylon had spoken of coming in a way I never saw coming, a woman talking about how she had met Caina the same way as another woman does in this book, Kylon's being quite angry with the Surge, and more.
The continuing adventures of Caina. Spoilers ahead for the earlier books.
It opens with her being ill, and sending Kylon off with the Emperor nonetheless, in the retinue for a state visit, because he'd be bored stiff. Then she finds out that she was, in fact, poisoned, the clinching evidence being a new attack.
She, of course, investigates. It involves opera rehearsals, an issue she and Kylon had spoken of coming in a way I never saw coming, a woman talking about how she had met Caina the same way as another woman does in this book, Kylon's being quite angry with the Surge, and more.