Summer Arts Preview

Release Date: June 12
Author: David Durham
Publisher: Doubleday

A wise but troubled king. His four beloved children. An empire built on dark, uneasy compacts. A rebellious northern tribe. A cold, unerring assassin. This is a big, fat, rich piece of history-flavored fantasy about an empire's fall and the struggle of its heirs to rebuild it, imagined with remarkable thoroughness. One never knows whether a new fantasy series is worth investing the time it takes to acquaint oneself with a new world and its sprawling cast of characters, but Acacia shows every sign of repaying the investment.