Michael Barnes
This is book 4 of what is proposed to be at least a 7 book series. Each book focuses on one of the paladins whose spirits were broken when their animating saint died.
This is the Paladin Shane story and the industrial spy Marguerite, both of whom we met in earlier books. Shane is, perhaps, the most formal and stiff of the paladins (which is saying something), and Marguerite is inclined to use all of the tools at her disposal to uncover the information she’s in search of which in this case is an invention by an artificer, who to my delight was a old very competent and experienced (and snarky) woman had spent her life using her skills to make mechanical devices that improve lives (and toys for her spoil patron), that will fundamentally change the dynamics of this culture.
And with a tidbit at the resolution from the point of view of another of the paladins - Judith and a very old and complicated demon I am eagerly looking forward to the next book in this series.
This is book 4 of what is proposed to be at least a 7 book series. Each book focuses on one of the paladins whose spirits were broken when their animating saint died.
This is the Paladin Shane story and the industrial spy Marguerite, both of whom we met in earlier books. Shane is, perhaps, the most formal and stiff of the paladins (which is saying something), and Marguerite is inclined to use all of the tools at her disposal to uncover the information she’s in search of which in this case is an invention by an artificer, who to my delight was a old very competent and experienced (and snarky) woman had spent her life using her skills to make mechanical devices that improve lives (and toys for her spoil patron), that will fundamentally change the dynamics of this culture.
And with a tidbit at the resolution from the point of view of another of the paladins - Judith and a very old and complicated demon I am eagerly looking forward to the next book in this series.