| Publication Date | April 1st, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | The Orion Publishing Group – Gollancz |
| Edges | Designed Foredge, Sprayed Edges |
| Other Special Finishes | Case Foiling |
The Dance of Shadows & A Testimony of Blood – Matching Numbered Set
by Rogba Payne
First UK Edition, First Printing
Signed & Numbered
Limited to 600 numbered copies
£56.00
Plus ShippingA matching numbered set of our exclusive editions of The Dance of Shadows and A Testimony of Blood
The Dance of Shadows:
Rumi and his family are Odu, stricken with poverty and disparaged by the other tribes. When ruthless agents of the Palmaine – the colonising nation that dominates the continent of Basmine – threaten to destroy the village market, Rumi takes it upon himself to liberate his family. Taking a place in the prestigious Golden Room, where earnings from his music offer a chance at freedom, he shoulders his pride and resentment in a bid to make it to the top.
On what should be Rumi’s greatest night at the Golden Room, his life is turned upside down. A terrifying individual known as the Priest of Vultures attacks Rumi and his family. Before her death, Rumi’s mother, Adunola, solicits the help of a dying god and saves Rumi, setting him on the path to become a Shadowwielder: warriors with the ability to use their shadow as a weapon. But Rumi’s need for vengeance may be more important to him than the future of his people…
A Testimony of Blood:
‘A bird in a cage may be safe but it will know no peace until it can fly. After all that we have seen, all that we have lost, I believe that the time to dance has come. We’ve hidden long enough.’
For those with the wit to learn, there is no better teacher than death. Nowhere is this truth better known than in the Eredo; where death’s signature marks every corner as its leaders and people try to recover from a devastating attack. The lost princess Falina Almarak has been crowned queen of the Kasinabe and charged with the unenviable task of rebuilding a broken nation.
Rumi Voltaine, seen by so many as a hero, struggles to come to terms with the revelations of his ancestral past and the expectations that come with it. With the Shadow Order deprived of its essential healing elixir, Rumi and his companions embark upon an impossible mission: to journey into the deepest parts of the forest known as the bush of ghosts. The forest holds many secrets – including the gateway known as the Door of Testimony which may hold the power to bring the dead back to life. They will have to be careful though; godhunters are on their trail and time is a precious commodity when your adversaries are immortal…
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