In doing so, they uncover some of the empire’s deepest secrets. But, unable to go along with Tyrus’ cruelty, Nemesis and Anguish must leverage every connection they have to enable Tyrus’ opponents to take him down. As “Nemesis lives” has been taken up as a rallying cry by those opposing the tyrant, she loses anonymity and returns to Tyrus, who finds he misses her, in exchange for medical care for Anguish. Meanwhile, Nemesis, left by Neveni after Nemesis botched an assassination attempt on Tyrus, lives in hiding in a desolate mining colony with the only other surviving Diabolic, Anguish, who’s dying. Rather than a traditional start (either a recap or where the previous left off), the book opens with Tyrus’ boyhood, when he makes a personally painful decision for the greater good, with ramifications that set him on the path that finds him, 15 years later, a mad tyrant declared to be a God-Emperor. After narrowly surviving The Empress (2017), Nemesis is pulled back into imperial intrigue to stop a madman.
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