Throne of Bronze; The Waking Lion

Victory is always costly. Triumph is earned in blood. And the dead do not save the living. For twenty two years Ojie has been a ghost. The sole survivor of the massacre that extinguished House Osa, he has lived in the shadows of the borderlands, starving his spirit bond to keep it dormant. He has obeyed his father’s final command to survive by becoming nothing. But the silence is ending. In the capital of Abuja, the Emperor sits upon the Red Throne with eyes that swallow light, and the ancient Binding that protects humanity from the Void is unraveling. In the west, the Empress of Oyo marches with an army bred for conquest. And in the heart of the empire, the usurpers of House Ọba are tightening their grip on the neck of the world. When the Emperor’s assassins find his hiding place, Ojie is forced to run. To reclaim his name and protect the people he left behind, he must journey to the floating city of Ẹkọ and forge an alliance with a spy who sells secrets for souls, a pirate king who trusts only gold, and a son who hates him for the sins of the past. Ojie must wake the Lion. He must learn that power without position is just violence. And he must decide if he is willing to burn the world to save it, or if the price of the crown is too high for a man who still remembers how to bleed.