The Master of Misrule

In a perilous game of chance, one player holds all the cards. . . .

When Cat and her friends put an end to the sinister Game of Triumphs, they thought they could simply collect their prizes and walk away. But in their haste to take down the old game-masters, they unwittingly created a monster. Before the dust has settled in Mercury Square, the self-proclaimed Master of Misrule is asserting his dominion over the Arcanum and Cat's own world, engineering a sadistic lottery that will unleash the power of the Game onto an unsuspecting London. Misrule's agenda of chaos threatens life as they know it, gambling away free will for fickle fortune, and shaking society to its very foundations. And his power has quickly grown to proportions they never could have imagined. It all comes down to one final play. Cat, Flora, Blaine, and Toby must go back into the Arcanum and take fate into their own hands. This time they have everything to lose.

This spine-tingling follow-up to Powell's The Game of Triumphs is everything you could hope for in a sequel and more! It's every bit as thrilling and complex as the first book, with higher stakes and even a hint of romance added to the mix.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LAURA POWELL studied classics before embarking on a career in publishing. She now writes full-time.

Praise for The Game of Triumphs:

"Powell's use of the tarot is fascinating. Cat, a skeptic and survivor, is nicely differentiated from her fellow questers—starry-eyed Toby, snooty Flora, and mysterious street rat Blaine."—Publishers Weekly

"Drawing on copious research into card playing, and the Tarot deck in particular, this is at once a vivid, pacy thriller, and then, at the deal of another hand, a complex fantasy. In a word: impressive."—Bookseller