The Last Page

The city of Isca is set like a dark jewel in the crown of the Duchy of Stonehold. In this sprawling landscape, the monsters one sees are nothing compared to what€™s living in the city€™s sewers.Twenty-three-year-old Caliph Howl is Stonehold€™s reluctant High King. Thrust onto the throne, Caliph has inherited Stonehold€™s dirtiest court secrets. He also faces a brewing civil war that he is unprepared to fight. After months alone amid a swirl of gossip and political machinations, the sudden reappearance of his old lover, Sena, is a welcome bit of relief. But Sena has her own legacy to claim: she has been trained from birth by the Shradnae witchocracy€”adept in espionage and the art of magical equations writ in blood€”and she has been sent to spy on the High King.Yet there are magics that demand a higher price than blood. Sena secretly plots to unlock the Cisrym Ta, an arcane text whose pages contain the power to destroy world