The Stone in the Skull<\/i>, the first volume in her new trilogy, takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of the Steles of the Sky and south into the Lotus Kingdoms.<\/p>\n

The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is long dead, and he works as a mercenary. He is carrying a message from a the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is The Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the body guard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort.<\/p>\n

They are walking into a dynastic war between the rulers of the shattered bits of a once great Empire.<\/p>\n

Representation Includes<\/h4>\n

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• South Asian trans feminine protagonist<\/li>\n
• The Gage is arguably trans masculine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  Content Warnings<\/div>

  This book is missing content warnings. Please comment if you know of any. I think I recall transphobia being present in the world\/narrative? I can’t say with certainty <\/div>