Elspeth Cooper

From the editor who brought you Joe Abercrombie, Patrick Rothfuss and Kristin Cashore: Elspeth Cooper is our next fantasy star.

Gair is under a death sentence. He can hear music - music with power - and in the Holy City that means only one thing: he s a witch and he s going to be burnt at the stake. Even if he could escape, the Church Knights and their witchfinder would be hot on his heels while his burgeoning power threatens to tear him apart from within.

There is no hope...none, but a secret order, themselves persecuted almost to destruction. If Gair can escape, if he can master his own growing, dangerous abilities, if he can find the guardians of the Veil, then maybe he will be safe.

Or maybe he ll discover that his fight has only just begun.