The Killing Light

by Myke Cole

Overview

The thrilling conclusion to Myke Cole's Sacred Throne trilogy

Heloise and her allies are marching on the Imperial Capital. The villagers, the Kipti, and the Red Lords are united only in their loyalty to Heloise, though dissenting voices are many and they are loud.

The unstable alliance faces internal conflicts and external strife, yet they’re united in their common goal. But when the first of the devils start pouring through a rent in the veil between worlds, Heloise must strike a bargain with an unlikely ally, or doom her people to death and her world to ruin.

Praise for the Sacred Throne Trilogy

"A heart-wrenching, blood-racing, all-around page-turner. Spare, vivid and surprisingly sensual, with a small, fierce heroine who will stick in your mind and live in your soul."—Diana Gabaldon

"Ruthless and heart-wrenching." —Robin Hobb

The Sacred Throne Trilogy

The Armored Saint
The Queen of Crows
The Killing Light

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765395986
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/12/2019
Series:	Sacred Throne Series , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	322,021
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

MYKE COLE is a devoted comic fan and voracious fantasy reader who never misses his weekly game night. His fandoms range from Star Wars to military history. He’s a former kendo champion and heavy weapons fighter in the Society for Creative Anachronism. At the D&D table, he always plays paladins. After a career hunting people in the military, police, and intelligence services, Cole put these skills to good use on CBS’s hit show Hunted. Author of the Shadow Ops series and the Sacred Throne Trilogy, which begins with The Armored Saint, Cole lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Editorial Reviews

★ 09/01/2019

Sixteen-year-old Heloise is on her way to the Imperial capital to confront the emperor and finally destroy the murderous Order that devastated her and her village. Tenuously allied with her group are the Traveling People and Red Lords, but allies in conviction do not always lead to harmony. When devils in incredible numbers arrive through a rent in the veil between worlds, the bloody destruction they cause touches all factions, allies and foes alike. To save her people and world, Heloise joins forces with the one person she holds accountable for the path they are on: Brother Tone. From her growing feelings for the Hapti knife-caster Xilyka and her struggle with the men surrounding her, to her questions of faith and fears of what is outside her war-machine armor, Heloise is both familiar and fantastical. VERDICT This final volume of the "Sacred Throne" trilogy (after Queen of Crows) will wreck your emotions in the worst and best ways. Writing intelligent, intense prose, Cole delivers vivid worldbuilding in a story brimming with religious and military fervor and ruthless action, offering a stunning conclusion to Heloise's journey.—Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton

Library Journal

07/22/2019

Cole concludes his Jeanne d’Arc–meets–Fullmetal Alchemist saga in signature pull-no-punches style, albeit with some emotional flattening. Humankind’s existential foes, the devils, have leaped through the world’s wizardry-torn Veil, and 16-year-old Heloise Factor is the only one with a hope of stopping them. As she collects followers ranging from ragged villagers to a professional foreign army, her efforts trigger factionalism, and the already high body count continues to rise. Heloise’s quixotic goal is to take the imperial capital, but what sacrifice will be required to keep her ragtag forces together? Cole occasionally allows himself to retroactively endow scenes from prior books with meaning that was not apparent at the time, such as Heloise’s immolation of the traitor Sigir. Presented as pure, vengeful satisfaction in the Queen of Crows (2018), it is recast here as having created an emotional “yawning gulf” in Heloise. These moments do not ring wholly true, but the rest of the story makes up for them. Cole has brought this trilogy home with hard insight, maintaining the high standard set from the start. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly