Grave Empire

***The instant Sunday Times bestseller*** ''Dazzling and immersive epic fantasy'' Publishers Weekly (starred review) ''An absolute treat . . . crammed with imagination, horror, epic scale, and characters I simply could not put down'' Grimdark Magazine ENTER A WORLD WHERE GUNPOWDER, ARCANE FORCES AND RUTHLESS AMBITION COLLIDE Blood once turned the wheels of empire. Now it is money. A new age of exploration and innovation has dawned, and the Empire of the Wolf stands to take its place as the foremost power in the known world. Glory and riches await. But dark days are coming. A mysterious plague has broken out in the pagan kingdoms to the north, while in the south, the Empire''s proxy war in the lands of the wolfmen is weeks away from total collapse. Worse still is the message brought to the Empress by two heretic monks, who claim to have lost contact with the spirits of the afterlife. The