The Bitter Twins (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 2)

**Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel**

The electrifying second book in the award-winning Winnowing Flame trilogy - the sequel to The Ninth Rain. Epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

''An absolute joy to read... jam-packed with breath-taking inventiveness'' James Oswald

''Incredible heroines... incredible fantasy... Escapism at its finest'' Stylist

The Ninth Rain has fallen. The Jure''lia are awake. Nothing can be the same again.

Tormalin the Oathless and the fell-witch Noon have their work cut out rallying the first war-beasts to be born in Ebora for three centuries. But these are not the great winged warriors of old. Hatched too soon and with no memory of their past incarnations, these onetime defenders of Sarn can barely stop bickering, let alone face an ancient enemy who grow stronger each day.

The key to uniting them, according to the scholar Vinta