The Unbound Man

A linguist turned poor-quarter scribe learns that his wife's murderer, long thought dead, may in fact be alive. A trade factor returns home from an assignment to find herself promoted to the unlikely position of adjunct to the house spymaster. A sorcerer, haunted by the unwelcome attention of a being he believes to be a god, commences a secret undertaking in defiance of his colleagues and at risk of his own life. And in a lost chamber sealed for millennia, an ancient empire's legacy lies dormant, awaiting the words that will rouse it from slumber — and change the world.