Hardcover
English language
Published Oct. 7, 2025 by Tor Books.
From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling novel, Witch King. A fantasy of epic scope, Queen Demon is a story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose.
Dahin believes he has clues to the location of the Hierarchs' Well, and the Witch King Kai, along with his companions Ziede and Tahren, knowing there's something he isn't telling them, travel with him to the rebuilt university of Ancartre, which may be dangerously close to finding the Well itself.
Can Kai stop the rise of a new Hierarch?
And can he trust his companions to do what’s right?
I was impatient with this for a number of reasons: books that require a Dramatis Personae feel needlessly complex (which is why I steer clear of high fantasy), the long interval between reading the prior book in this series, Bashat/Bashasa as Prince-heirs in different times—all of this confused me. But! Even though I felt lost much of the time, it delivers.
