The Scarab Path
2010 • 400 pages

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The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend, haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease, seeking for meaning in a city that no longer seems like home. The Empress Seda is regaining control over those imperial cities who refused to bow the knee to her, but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies and war machines. Only her consort, the former spymaster Thalric, knows the truth, and now the assassins are coming and he finds his life and his loyalties under threat yet again. Out past the desert of the Nem the ancient city of Khanaphes awaits them both, with a terrible secret entombed beneath its stones...

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Shadows of the Apt is a 10-book series with 10 primary works first released in 2008 with contributions by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

#1
Empire in Black and Gold
#2
Dragonfly Falling
#3
Blood of the Mantis
#4
Salute the Dark
#5
The Scarab Path
#6
The Sea Watch
#7
Heirs of the Blade
#8
The Air War
#9
War Master's Gate
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Seal of the Worm

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September 15, 2010

This one was very exciting. Again, new characters, new settings, new races. An interesting drama, this one.

July 13, 2015