Book 2 of the Iron Widow Series
Zetian must balance dangerous politics with a new quest for vengeance in the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron Widow.
After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself on the seat of power in Huaxia, but she has also learned that her world is not as it seems. Revelations about an enemy who dangles one of her loved ones as a hostage force Zetian to share power with a dangerous man she cannot simply depose. Despite their mutual dislike and distrust, the two must work together to take down their common enemy and stoke a revolution against the systems of exploitation that plague their world.
However, power is not so easy to wield once seized, and a revolution is not so easy to control once unleashed. As Huaxia’s former elites strike back and the common people’s fervor for justice turns bloody and paranoid, can Zetian remain a fair and just ruler? Or will she be forced to rely on fear and violence and succumb to her darker instincts in her quest for vengeance and liberation?
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**CORRECTION ALERT: It’s come to my attention that some people have been reading a certain scene in Chapter 46 in a way I did not intend, so I am issuing a formal correction. The clarifying lines are meant to be narration, following right after page 433. Hopefully, they will remove the scene’s ambiguity. The ebook has already been fixed, and the updated print copies should come in about 6 months. If you own an existing print copy of Heavenly Tyrant, please take a pen or pencil and add the following lines to the top of page 434: [We can sculpt anything out of spirit metal. I could even FEEL through it. We can make this work.]
OR, you can print the size-optimized correction out via one of these Word docs (choose the correct standard paper size for your territory), cut it out, and glue it onto the page:
If you haven’t read to page 434 yet, you can cover the text with a piece of paper to avoid spoilers while flipping through the book. The page is on the lefthand side.
If you own a library version, please put it on a sticky note and mention in brackets that I the author issued the amendment. Or do the print out, which will probably go over better with libraries.
The audiobook will not be updated due to the logistics being too complicated, but the lines WOULD’VE come at 15:22 in Chapter 46, after the line “It’s YOUR turn.”
Thank you, everyone, and sorry for the trouble! I really thought it was plenty obvious that he was about to get pegged.