A lush tale of deadly court intrigue and a modern classic of fantasy by Locus award winner and Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award finalist Katherine AddisonThe youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial...

Celehar’s life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city—the foundling girls. Orphans with no family...

Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of Witness for the Dead is gone, what defines him?While his title may be gone, his duties are not. Celehar contends with a municipal cemetery with fifty years of secrets,...

When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him...