Kushiel's Chosen

With the realm at peace after the war that closed Kushiel's Dart, Phedre no Delaunay finds herself unable to let go of one loose thread: Melisande Shahrizai, the traitor whose plotting she once helped unravel, has vanished rather than faced justice. When signs surface that Melisande is active again, Phedre's search pulls her out of Terre d'Ange's court and into the tangled politics of a rival city-state, testing both her skills as a spy and the strange gift, pain answered with pleasure, that makes her Kushiel's chosen. The second novel in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy, continuing Phedre's story from Kushiel's Dart.