She knows she and her caretakers have to hide who they are since everyone else on the planet sees necromancers as monsters. She sees everything perfectly clearly: the overheated planet where the sunlight can kill in a matter of hours, filled with refugees, too many refugees, entire planets of refugees who are despairing and angry and looking for someone to blame. Nona’s memories only go back six months, and she’s a unique kind of Unreliable Narrator. Meanwhile Gideon in Harrow’s body is rescued from the crushing weight of the in-between world of the River, but dies anyway.Īnd then it’s several months later and we’re experiencing the universe through Nona, who’s as different from the grieving Reverend Daughter Harrow or the bitterly smart-aleck sword-fighter Gideon as anyone can be. The third book is out in Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb trilogy…which is, surprise, no longer a trilogy! Midway through writing the final book in the series the author realized that she now had a character who needed an entire book devoted to her story.īook Two ended with the soul of Harrowhark curling up in a tomb – location unknown – leaving her body behind so her dead cavalier Gideon could occupy it in her place. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever.Īnd each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face.Our rule was, nobody knowingly left behind… Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses.

Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back.

She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. “Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” - The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth “You will love Nona, and Nona loves you.” -Alix E. Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona.

Nona the locked tomb