A doomed rebellion... An imperial proposition... A gambit in the God's Game... What Salmaara has done to Yezhr haunts her. Above all else, she believes in the freedom to choose, fights for it. But in a desperate moment on a mauviasen clifftop, she took that from her lithian captor.Prior to his tragic death, Salmaara 's father told her his secret. Her true mother is Queen Kusae, she who fights the empress. But, Kusae is losing the war, and badly. The rebel queen's forces are trapped in Arvitra Basin, surrounded, with no way out.But that won't stop Salmaara. She's determined to reunite with her mother, and help her if she can. But will her mother want her back? Why was she thrown in the river in the first place?Before she knows it, she's swept up in imperial intrigues that take her from a city built into redwoods and a waterfall castle, to a treasure-filled palace made entirely of precious starsya, the most expensive metal in the world.Will she save her mother, her people, and her friends by taking the hand of kinship offered by the Empress Velanoma? Or, will she risk her freedom, her life, her very soul to stand against Vias the Destroyer's chosen for what she feels is right?"Imaginative and vast, The Destroyer's Empire is a big story vividly told, sure to satisfy fans of epic fantasy."—Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of The Saga of Seven Suns."Tiffany Brazell's imagination takes off where others' end. This is a tale of high magic that is sure to please." —David Farland, New York Times bestselling author of The Runelords