As the struggle between Lord Banyon and the Queen threatens the people Joss cares about, she stumbles onto hints of a monumental royal secret. And with her relationship with Jericho more confusing than ever, Joss realizes that she’ll have to find her own way out of this magical mess, with or without help from those around her.Īmid high tensions, Joss sets out to learn to control the memory magic-along with her own natural powers. It soon becomes clear that Valery can’t, or won’t, provide assistance. But Valery, Jericho’s boss-and a notoriously powerful mage-has other plans. After fleeing the Queen’s palace with Prince Elian in tow, she’d hoped to finally find a way to solve both of their magical problems in one fell swoop, with the help of criminal-turned-ally Jericho Nox. This riveting sequel to Echoes and Empires sees Joss and Jericho team up with some of their greatest enemies-including two of the most powerful mages in the world-to bring an end to the queen’s empire of lies, from New York Times bestselling author Morgan Rhodes. In an empire built on lies, the truth may be her greatest weapon.īook 2 of Echoes and Empires | Penguin Razorbill (June 13, 2023) The closer she grows to Jericho and the more she sees of the world outside her pampered life in the city, the more Joss begins to question the beliefs she’s always taken for granted-beliefs about right and wrong, about power and magic, and even about herself. And though she’s not thrilled to be working with a thief, especially one as infuriating (and infuriatingly handsome) as Jericho, Joss is desperate enough to accept.īut Jericho is nothing like Joss expects. Nobody, that is, except wanted criminal Jericho Nox, who offers her a deal: his help extracting the magic in exchange for the magic itself. But in Ironport, the cost of doing magic is death, and seeking help mightmean scheduling her own execution. Joss needs the magic removed before it corrupts her soul and kills her. So when she’s caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queen’s Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magic-one that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil warlock-she finds herself living her worst nightmare. Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it’s rare, illegal, and always deadly.

2022)Ī snarky seventeen-year-old must team up with an enigmatic criminal to cure herself of dangerous forbidden magic in the first book of a new fantasy duology from Morgan Rhodes, the New York Times bestselling author of the Falling Kingdoms series.

Book 1 of Echoes and Empires | Penguin Razorbill (Jan.

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