The Song of the Shrike. Long live the prince!

Life in Romus and the Forbidden Lands is heated to the limit by intrigues and secrets. Friends become more dangerous than enemies, and enemies turn into allies.
Gautier realized that Skarial is not who he seems. Now the pureblood wants to know the whole truth and will go to great lengths for it.
Jerome is no longer willing, like a trusting lowborn, to follow Skarial and intends to stop him.
The struggle intensifies when the commander Frank Lafer, the Octavian rat catcher, enters the game. His target becomes Skarial Low — the first half-blood in the entire history of Octavia to be admitted to the Academy of Saints and Greats.