Mordew's Alex Pheby for Waterblack

Author of the brilliant Mordew and Malarkoi returns with Waterblack, the monumental conclusion to Alex Pheby's Cities of the Weft trilogy.

THE DEAD ARE RISING.

One thousand million infants are dead, and Nathan Treeves is back. He’s become the Master of Waterblack, the City of the Dead.

And Sharli, once a sacrifice, then an assassin, is now a trained God-Killer. She has killed many — but failed in killing Nathan Treeves years ago.

Soon she, and the Women’s Vanguard, will have another chance, even as The Master, The Mistress and the Atheistic Crusade hurtle toward their final confrontation.

The world of Mordew returns in the epic conclusion to the Cities of the Weft trilogy. Welcome to Waterblack.

In Waterblack, Alex pushes the boundaries and possibilities of the fantasy genre further than ever, with more style than ever, posing vital questions about the way power can be abused, who decides who has power – and what it means to have none. It's a book that speaks to and about our own times with magnificent eloquence. And it is a book for all time.