Five Queendoms, The: Scorpica (Series #1) (Hardcover)

A centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single girl being born in this sweeping epic fantasy that's perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Circe.

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.

Author: G. R. Macallister
Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781982167899

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 01/10/2022
Booklist 02/01/2022 pg. 28

About the Author
G.R. Macallister is an author who also writes historical fiction under the name Greer Macallister. Her first novel, The Magician's Lie, was a USA TODAY bestseller. Her novel Girl in Disguise was inspired by pioneering 19th-century private detective Kate Warne and fearless journalist Nellie Bly, respectively. Her new book, The Arctic Fury, was named a LibraryReads pick and a spotlighted new release at PopSugar, Libro.fm, and Goodreads. A regular contributor to Writer Unboxed and the Chicago Review of Books, she lives with her family in Washington, DC.