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Book two in the New York Times bestselling series One of Time Magazines 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time A USA Today bestseller

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Elias and Laia are running for their lives

After the events of the Fourth Trial Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire

Laia is determined to break into Kaufthe Empires most secure and dangerous prisonto save her brother who is the key to the Scholars survival And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom

But dark forces human and otherworldly work against Laia and Elias The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus the merciless Commandant the sadistic Warden of Kauf and most heartbreaking of all HeleneEliass former friend and the Empires newest Blood Shrike

Bound to Marcuss will Helene faces a torturous mission of her ownone that might destroy her find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escapeand kill them both