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The shard against her throat has begun to wake. Amara spent ten years pretending she didn't know it would.She survived the fall of Veythar by vanishing while her city burned — and exile did not make her gentle. The Kharuun who took her empire scrubbed her name from coin and ledger and called the silence an order. They were wrong about silence. In a drowned marsh at the edge of the map, the lost queen has been quietly turning fishermen and smugglers into something that can hold a line.And carrying, against her skin, a piece of old Veythari stone she never found the nerve to bury.Now it answers something beneath the dead city she used to rule — old power with an older grammar, waiting in stone and water to be commanded again. The occupiers don't know what the shard is. The boy who's attached himself to her doesn't know what she is. Amara knows both. Knowing has never once kept her safe.Veythar fell. Veythar remembers.It is not asking her to save it. It is asking her to come home.For readers who want their fantasy to argue with them — Six Throats sits in the lineage of N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth and Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," carried in a register closer to Gene Wolfe: disciplined, withholding, and unwilling to tell you the thing it most wants you to feel. Read more
