Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world, throwing long-standing alliances into disarray as each queendom begins to turn on each other—and new threats to each nation rise from within.

Uniting the stories of women from across the queendoms, this propulsive, gripping epic fantasy follows a warrior queen who must rise from childbirth bed to fight for her life and her throne, a healer in hiding desperate to protect the secret of her daughter’s explosive power, a queen whose desperation to retain control leads her to risk using the darkest magic, a near-immortal sorcerer demigod powerful enough to remake the world for her own ends—and the generation of lastborn girls, the ones born just before the Drought, who must bear the hopes and traditions of their nations if the queendoms are to survive.
Review
An intoxicating brew of court politics, deadly magic, family rivalry, and enough swashbuckling female swordplay to delight 
Wonder Woman s entire isle of Amazons. Macallister’s turn from historical fiction to historical fantasy is a gem—I can t wait for the next installment! —Kate Quinn, 
New York Times bestselling author of 
The Alice Network

Ambitious and engaging… A sprawling epic fantasy that spans the lives of warriors, queens and the fate of a continent. —Rebecca Roanhorse,
New York Times bestselling author
Black Sun
About the Author
G.R. Macallister, author of the Five Queendoms series, also writes bestselling historical fiction under the name Greer Macallister. Her novels have been named Indie Next and LibraryReads Book of the Month picks and optioned for film and television. A regular contributor to
Writer Unboxed and the
Chicago Review of Books, she lives with her family in Washington, DC. 
Scorpica is her epic fantasy debut.

EAN: 9781982167899