Scorpica

"Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world, throwing long-standing alliances into disarray as each queendom begins to turn on each other, and new threats to each nation rise from within. Uniting the stories of women from across the queendoms, this propulsive, gripping epic fantasy follows a warrior queen who must rise from childbirth bed to fight for her life and her throne, a healer in hiding desperate to protect the secret of her daughter's explosive power, a queen whose desperation to retain control leads her to risk using the darkest magic, a near-immortal sorcerer demigod powerful enough to remake the world for her own ends, and the generation of lastborn girls, the ones born just before the Drought, who must bear the hopes and traditions of their nations if the queendoms are to survive"--

About the author

G.R. Macallister, author of the Five Queendoms series, beginning with Scorpica, and also writes bestselling historical fiction under the name Greer Macallister. Her novels have been optioned for film and television. A regular contributor to Writer Unboxed and the Chicago Review of Books, she lives with her family in Washington, DC.

Product details

• Authors: G R Macallister, G R Macallister, G. R. Macallister
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9781982167905
• ISBN: 978-1-9821-6790-5
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 208 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Series: Five Queendoms, the
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Fantasy, FICTION / Fantasy / General, FICTION / Fantasy / Historical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Historical fantasy, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, FICTION / Feminist