The False Queen - Steven D. Jackson

Asterheim reels in the wake of the assault from the East. The new Echelarch struggles to keep order in the Senate amid squabbling factions and the ambitions of ruthless lords.

When the fabled Mage Queen Hilda returns from the dead, hope and order seem to be restored. But as lords and citizens alike flock to her side in rapturous adulation, the balance of power shifts alarmingly away from the Senate.

As their suspicions of a terrible darkness at the heart of the legendary mage grow, Rigel and his friends must push their abilities to the limit to uncover the truth of the city's troubled history and its saviour.

Asterheim must confront its past, or be consumed by it.