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New 10th Anniversary Edition Featuring Bonus Content &bull
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Deleted prologue: The Imperial Fool Prologue commentary from the acclaimed podcast Writing Excuses.
Forging, while deducing the motivations of her captors, she needs a perfect plan to escape....
Time is running out for Shai.
Shai\'s only possible ally is the emperor\'s most loyal councillor, Gaotona, who struggles to understand her true talent.
She is confined to a tiny, dirty chamber, guarded by a man who hates her, spied upon by politicians, and trapped behind a door sealed in her own blood.
But her soul-Forgery is considered an abomination by her captors.
Shai is given an impossible task: to create - to Forge - a new soul for the emperor in fewer than one hundred days.
If the emperor does not emerge after his hundred-day mourning period, the rule of the Heritage Faction will be forfeit and the empire will fall into chaos.
An assassin has left the Emperor Ashravan comatose, a circumstance concealed only by the death of his wife. &bull
An original introduction from the publisher When Shai is caught replacing the Moon Scepter with her nearly flawless forgery, she must bargain for her life. &bull
New 10th Anniversary Edition Featuring Bonus Content &bull
Hugo Award Winner Includes: &bull
Deleted prologue: The Imperial Fool Prologue commentary from the acclaimed podcast Writing Excuses
