On the planet Abeth, a narrow Corridor of green land is surrounded by ice plains where only the strong survive. Ice-triber Yaz has completed a perilous journey and arrived at the Corridor, and it exceeds and overwhelms all of her expectations. Everything seems different, but some constants remain: her old enemies are still two steps ahead, bent on her destruction. She makes her way to Sweet Mercy Convent, where nuns train young girls who show the old gifts, but like the Corridor itself, the convent is packed with peril and opportunity. Yaz has much to learn from the nuns—if they don’t decide to execute her. The fate of all those squeezed between the Corridor’s vast walls, and ultimately the fate of those labouring to survive out on the ice, hangs on the moon, and the battle to save the moon centres on the ark of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor’s palace. Everyone wants Yaz to be the key that will open the ark—the one the wise have sought for generations. But sometimes wanting isn’t enough.

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Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence was born in Champagne-Urbanan, Illinois, to British parents but moved to the UK at the age of one. He went back to the US after taking a PhD in mathematics at Imperial College to work on a variety of research projects including the ‘Star Wars’ missile defence programme. Returning to the UK, he has worked mainly on image processing and decision/reasoning theory. He says he never had any ambition to be a writer so was very surprised when a half-hearted attempt to find an agent turned into a global publishing deal overnight. His first trilogy, THE BROKEN EMPIRE, has been universally acclaimed as a ground-breaking work of fantasy. Following The Broken Empire comes the bestselling RED QUEEN’S WAR trilogy. The BOOK OF THE ANCESTOR trilogy, in an entirely new setting, commences with RED SISTER in 2017.