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THE BLACK QUEEN

The Fey Empire has been at peace for fifteen years.
But Queen Arianna, who holds the Black Throne, has become increasingly troubled by
a mysterious presence that is waking in her mind. It is a force of ruthless power,
determined to seize the throne even if it means destroying Arianna’s very essence in the
process. And when the queen’s body is not her own, it spells trouble for a warlike empire
already beginning to chafe under the strictures of peace.
Worse, it seems that the only person who can help Arianna is her brother, Gift, the
legitimate heir to the Black Throne—and the one the Throne itself has chosen as ruler. To
refuse its summoning could bring disaster, but to accept it could be more dire still. So
while his sister is locked in a battle to save her very soul, Gift must use his incomplete
knowledge of magic in a desperate fight to discover a solution. At stake is the fate of the
entire world—which stands poised on the brink of unimaginable chaos.




VISION OF DARKNESS

Coulter was about to leave when the hair on the back of his neck rose. A sensation
came out of the northwest. He turned, and saw a golden light threaded with black. It
flowed like a river through the sky, but the light had a beginning and an end. The light
had a feeling. It drew and repelled him at the same time.
He got a sense of Arianna, as if he were with her, as if he were almost a part of her. She
was in great pain, extreme pain, pain so severe it was ripping her from the inside out.
He fell to his knees with the power of it. He wasn’t in pain—he knew it was her
pain—but it felled him just the same. “Ari,” he whispered—
And then the feeling was gone as if it had never been. He raised his head toward the
sky. The light had passed. The presences were gone.
“Are you all right?” Leen asked.
Coulter put a hand on hers. He had no words for what he had just felt. “I’m fine,” he
said, “but something has changed.”
“What?” she asked.
“I don’t know,” he said. “But I don’t think things are going to be quiet anymore.”



The Black Throne Series



THE BLACK QUEEN

Kristine Kathryn Rusch