The Inheritance Trilogy - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms and The Kingdom of Gods with The Awakened Kingdom

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky, seat of the ruling Arameri family. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with a pair of cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother’s death and her family’s bloody history.

With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate — and gods and mortals — are bound inseparably.

The Broken Kingdoms

Oree Shoth sees magic—and nothing else.  She paints landscapes by touch and scent, and uses a staff to navigate Shadow, the city built at the roots of the giant tree whose branches cradle the palace of the all-powerful Arameri dynasty. When a derelict god shows up on a neighborhood muckheap Oree takes him under her wing, an act which entangles her in a cosmic feud thousands of years old.  For the gods hold ancient grudges and commit horrific crimes, letting mortals suffer the consequences.  Can innocence redeem them?

In The Broken Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin continues to dazzle us with the treacherous machinations of a pantheon of rivals—the fascinating, maddeningly self-centered deities introduced in the first book of her genre-redefining Inheritance Trilogy.

The Kingdom of Gods

Sieh the Trickster, a billion-years-old child and first godling grandson of the fearsome, universe-spawning Maelstrom, plays too hard with a mortal brother and sister and falls in love.  When a strange accident strips Sieh of his powers these two royal scions of the Arameri dynasty--the family who once enslaved Sieh and his father--must literally move heaven and earth to save him, while the implacable vengeance of a neglected deity threatens to shred all existence to rags. 

In The Kingdom of Gods, the glorious conclusion to N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy, death, lust, betrayal, and mercy collide.  With unhesitating skill and deep empathy the author depicts a life turning from dream to reality, from mockery to maturity, from making wishes to making truth. 

The Awakened Kingdom

Encompassing a fresh-born godling’s origin story and three tales showing us Jemisin’s more familiar characters in their adventures beyond her novels’ pages, The Awakened Kingdom and Other Stories gives readers of The Inheritance Trilogy what we all long for: a return to its deep, wild magic. In the title novella we meet Shill, offspring of Yeine, Nahadoth, and ‘Papa Tempa’. All godlings have a true nature, and Shill is eager to discover hers. She’d better do it quickly, before she hurts or kills anyone irreversibly or ends up banished from the mortal realm.

Each part of “Shades in Shadow,” the triptych following Shill’s story, expands on a passage from the original trilogy. “The Wild Boy” tells how Nahadoth, god of night and chaos, comes to be shaped by a mortal as cruel and fascinating as himself. “The God Without a Name” is the voyage of Nahadoth’s once-human avatar through eternal whoredom and divine pimphood. In “The Third Why,” the demon Glee searches for the god who is her father and finds crucial answers to questions about her existence, her father’s fate, and how the world can be made better.

Limited: 400 signed numbered hardcover copies

Lettered: 52 signed leatherbound copies, housed in a custom traycase