Description:
From the author of the bestselling Chronicles of Elantra series comes Cast in Wisdom, which follows detective/mage Kaylin Neya and her various colleagues as she struggles to protect the city of Elantra.
In the aftermath of the events in the High Halls, there are loose ends. One of those loose ends is the fieflord, Candallar. In an attempt to understand his involvement--with the Barrani, with the High Court, and with the much hated Arcanum--Kaylin has been sent to the fiefs.
She has mixed feelings about this. There's nothing mixed about her feelings when she discovers a very unusual building in the border zone between two fiefs, and far more questions are raised than are answered. Her attempt to get answers leads her back to the Imperial Palace and its resident Dragon librarian, the Arkon.
Things that were lost in the dim past were not, perhaps, destroyed or obliterated--and what remains appears to be in the hands of a fieflord and his allies--allies who would like to destroy Kaylin's friends, the Emperor, and possibly the Barrani High Court itself.
This is bad.
What's worse: The librarian who hates to leave his library has a very strong interest in the things that might, just might, have been preserved, and--he is leaving his library to do in person research, no matter what Kaylin, the Hawks, or the Emperor think.
He is not the only one. Other people are gathering in the border zone; people who believe knowledge is power. But power is also power, and it might be too late for the Empire's most dedicated Historian--and Kaylin and her friends, who've been tasked with his safety.
Brief description:
Khristine Hvam has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards, placed three times as a finalist for the prestigous Audie Award, and won the Audie Award for Best Narration in 2012 and 2013. She studied acting for the theater and film, and her voice can be heard in Pokémon, World of Warcraft, and in various television and radio commercials.
Review Quotes:
"A fast, fun novel, delightfully enjoyable...[with] serious questions at its core."
-- "Locus on Cast in Oblivion"