The spectacular fantasy end-time saga by New York Times best-selling author N.K. Jemisin - loved by a huge fan base and awarded the HUGO Award In the midst of a dying world, the desperate Essun has only one goal: to free her daughter from the hands of a murderer she knows only too well. Since a huge crack full of bubbling lava has opened up in the heart of the country of Sanze, whose ashes have darkened the sky, more and more people seem to be falling into madness. So the ruler has his own citizens murdered. But it wasn't soldiers who killed Essun's little son and kidnapped her daughter - it was her own husband! Essun follows them through a country that has become a death trap. And the war for bare survival is yet to come. "The elegant style and the dark, realistic world design provide the perfect backdrop for de.