Cage of Shadows

What choice will you make, when the shadows close around you?

Taline will do anything to get back to Nin. Rone will do anything to keep the scepter from the emperor’s hand. Nin will do anything to leave her past behind as she is forced to confront it amid bloody battlefields, relentless assassins, and the emperor’s glittering and diabolical court.

And Kaveh, as he wrecks worlds with Nin at his side… Kaveh starts to think he will do anything to bind Nin to him permanently.

Madness lurks, bonds of steel are forged, power reigns, and loyalty is put to the ultimate test.

And to all, beware—the House of Scepters never died.

Cage of Shadows is the second book in a three book series featuring the same cast.

1. House of Scepters
2. Cage of Shadows
3. Crown of Starlight

What is the Pentalayerverse?
This is the five layer Earth that all Anne Zoelle books inhabit (so far!). As Will explains in The Awakening of Ren Crown, “In the Split, four magical layers identical in geography to the first were created directly on top of this one, using most of the world’s available magic. Leaving this—the First Layer—a normal, non-magical safe haven for people without magic abilities. Course, that was three thousand years ago, so most places look different between the layers now—due to weathering and construction by different species and kingdoms.”

Who inhabits the layers?
1 = non-magic layer for humans and animals
2 = stable magic layer for mages
3 = stable/unstable magic layer (depending on time period) for mages and beings
4 = stable magic layer for creatures, beings, beasts
5 = unstable magic layer (traverse at your own risk!)

Where do the books take place?
* The Ren Crown series is a current day story that mostly takes place in the Second Layer (with jaunts to the First and Third).
* Tender of the Garden takes place in the Fourth Layer, also in the current day time period.
* The Scepter series takes place in the Second and First Layers of Ancient Persia (600BCE).

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The beautiful illustrations on House of Scepters, Cage of Shadows, and Crown of Starlight were drawn by Eleonor Piteira.

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