The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade Book 2)

The Monster Baru Cormorant continues the epic geopolitical fantasy begun in The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Baru, once a betrayer seeking to shatter the Empire of Masks, is now Agonist, a secret lord within the very empire she seeks to destroy.

Haunted and hunted, Baru leads her enemies on a dangerous expedition in search of immortality, hoping to ignite a war that will consume the Masquerade. But a fractured mind and a broken heart threaten to corrupt her mission, blurring the lines between justice and revenge. She questions if her actions are her own, or if she is controlled by the man who transformed her.

Can Baru truly dismantle the Empire, or will her inner turmoil lead to her ultimate downfall?