Ice Cradle

Urt — a world nurtured by Mother Below under the guise of Father Above. One half is scorched by the sun, the other plunged into eternal cold. Here, one can only live on a narrow strip between the dead hemispheres,... called the Crown. Today, this harsh planet is in danger.
But in which part of the world is the secret of its destruction hidden?
A young seer. A prince-in-a-boot. A cursed Knight. A runaway convict. They are united by the impending catastrophe, and only they can save the planet. To do this, they had to split up. For the shining ghostly sphere, awakened by the knowledge of the Ancients, indicated that the keys to preventing the apocalypse might be in different places.
The first group set off to the Studying Wastes, lands engulfed in darkness and frozen to the core, about which almost nothing is known. The second found themselves in the vast capital of a cruel southern empire, where the mysterious repository of wisdom — the Codex of the Abyss — is located. Time is running out — armies from all corners of the world gather, ready to begin the Great War. Meanwhile, the world's saviors discover: someone among them is not who they think he is. And someone is not even who they think they are...

Continuation of the latest fantasy cycle by James Rollins — an internationally renowned author, creator of numerous New York Times bestselling novels, translated into 40 languages.

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«A talented storyteller who effortlessly drifts from thriller to fantasy and back. A stunning narrative». — Terry Brooks

«A powerful, brilliant epic fantasy from a distinguished novelist». — Jonathan Maberry

«Being a virtuoso master of genre blending, here James is simply at the peak of his form». — Robert Salvatore

«Rollins is what you get when you put Dan Brown and Michael Crichton in a hadron collider». — New York Times