Tiamat's Wrath

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy.

But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the

mysteries and threats grow deeper.

In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien

planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a

genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find

weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the

price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.

At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden

of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortázar and

the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a

palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even

her father the emperor doesn't guess.

And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the

Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian

regime.

Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal

rule - and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose - seems more and more

certain. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and

ambition will not be enough.