<p><strong><em>In a long-planned perfectly executed coup the Academies of Eloesus overthrow the Imperial government and transport a foreign army to the Empire's shores intending to remake the nation according to their utopian vision.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>As cities fall and the nation slips toward certain annihilation the lone voice of Imperium calls out for a renewed rise of an empire and a deluge of traitors' blood.</p><p><br></p><p>The fifth and final book of the Imperial Chronicles series which began in Unconquered Son.</p><p><br></p><p>Unique to the print editions this paperback includes maps of the Empire and Imperial City.</p>