Kushiel's Chosen : A Novel by Jacqueline Carey

Following hard on the heels of “Kushiel’s Dart,” Jacqueline Carey’s spectacular debut novel, comes “Kushiel’s Chosen,” the second in the glittering and riveting Kushiel’s Legacy Trilogy. Phedre no Delaunay has survived much in her short life; she is an anguissette, a courtly spy, and the keeper of a nation’s secrets. She has saved a kingdom, kept her people from a barbaric invasion, and thwarted Melisande Shahrizai, a ruthless, Machiavellian villainess. But her gods are not yet finished with Phedre, for while the young queen who sits upon the throne is well loved by the people, there are those who believe other heads should wear the crown-Melisande was able to escape the royal guard, and is not done scheming for power and revenge. To save all she holds dear, Phedre will travel from the sun-drenched villas of La Serenissima to the wilds of old Hellas, and will discover a plot so dreadful as to make the earth tremble . . ."