The second book of the cult historical fantasy cycle by Vera Kamsha “The Flickers of Eternity.”
The exhausting war is behind, but peaceful times in Kertiana hardly give way to it in epic scale. There is no end to court intrigues and uprisings, oaths and betrayals, secrets and mysticism—amid the raging fire of discord, some heroes discover within themselves the strength to stand on the side of truth, while others cast off the mask of nobility. Great upheavals torment the Golden Lands from the beginning of time, but the consequences may reach you even centuries later…