The Tainted Cup
By Robert Jackson Bennett
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The secrets of the Empire are blooming like the sickly blossoms of the plant that is killing its defenders and in the distance another monster waits to tread its path of destruction. Gifted with the ability to recall everything he sees, Din is apprenticed to the Iudex Ana, a savant discoverer of other’s wrongs. Together they will seek out the hands responsible for an ever-growing series of deaths that range from the engineers responsible for the protective walls to those in the upper reaches of society. These two will match their wits against their unusual antagonists while the leviathans emerge from the depths of the sea and hurl themselves against the massive protective walls of the Empire under the fire of the legionnaires. Will they solve the murders before the leviathans end the empire?
