The Basilisk Throne – Master and Commander meets A Game of Thrones and Pirates of the Carribean. (Paperback)

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For generations, the Drehhu have ruled through conquest, reducing human nations to subjects and property. Now the balance has begun to shift. Three empires, long divided, move toward a final reckoning as war narrows in on the enemy’s last stronghold.

In The Basilisk Throne, the clash of armies is only part of the story. While fleets burn and borders collapse, a young woman learns that survival at court demands a different kind of vigilance. Power hides in conversation as often as it does in steel, and the most dangerous threats rarely announce themselves.

Far from the centre of command, the fate of the war may rest with two unlikely figures. Hound, a feral rogue shaped by violence and loss, and Ammolite, bound to a sorcerer older than any empire, carry knowledge that could end the conflict or unmake it entirely. Their loyalties remain uncertain, their paths converging in ways no strategist can predict.

The Basilisk Throne balances sweeping conflict with intimate choices, exploring how empires fall not only through battle, but through the people caught between obedience and defiance.