Long Live the Queen (Book 5 of The Powder Trail)

Jack Cade only needs one more thing to save his girlfriend from her past: the ring she threw into the demon realms. The one she never wanted anyone to find. It's being guarded by the incarnation of despair, and he has mixed feelings about retrieving it - not just because Ellini asked him not to. Once he does, she's going to leave him to fight the mad goddess-in-waiting, Myrrha Crake. But if she doesn't, Myrrha could kill the mother goddess of the demons and lead a crazed demon army into the human world.

Can Ellini find a way to stop her? Is Robin Crake really on her side? Will Alice Darwin embrace her role as one of the two divinely-appointed guardians of Oxford? And where has the other guardian been hiding all this time?

Long Live the Queen, the final book of The Powder Trail, features sea-witches, silver dragons and a resurgent Ellini Syal, in control of her past and her future. But it will take every scrap of her new-found strength to fight Myrrha and the chaos that flows in her wake.

Cover by the amazing @AnnamitaMuscaria