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A Day of Fallen Night

by Samantha Shannon

A sweeping epic prequel follows four women across a dragon-shadowed world as terror rises and they fight to protect humankind.

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About A Day of Fallen Night

Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory’s purpose. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Now someone from her mother’s past is coming to upend her fate. When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat.

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Light
Darkness
Dark
Pacing
Slow

Series

Roots of Chaos · Book 1 of 2

Content warnings
  • violence
  • war
  • death
  • grief
  • plague
  • childbirth
  • pregnancy
  • miscarriage
  • blood
  • sexual content
  • reproductive coercion
  • vomiting
  • child death

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