TOIL AND TROUBLE Sarah Calhoun paid a hard price for her entry onto the stage of the Empires politics, but she survived. Now she rides north into the Ohio and her fathers kingdom, Cahokia. To win the Serpent Throne, shell have to defeat seven other candidates, win over the kingdoms regent, and learn the will of a hidden goddesswhile mastering her peoples inscrutable ways and watching her own back. In New Orleans, a new and unorthodox priest arises to plague the chevalier and embody the curse of the murdered Bishop Ukwu. He battles the chevaliers ordinary forces as well as a troop of Old World mamelukes for control of the city and the sakriti opis