Tower of Dawntechnically isnt a sequel its her firstcompanionnovel to the series.

Tower of Dawnhits shelves Sept. 5, butcan be pre-ordered now.

Check out the excerpt from Chapter One, below.

TowerOfDawn_online[1]

Bloomsbury USA Childrens;

Chaol twisted his head to peer up at Nesryn, stone-faced behind him as she pushed his chair.

Hed initially wanted to wear black, simply because color .

Hed never felt comfortable with colors, save the red and gold of his kingdom.

But black had become the color of Erawans Valg-infested guards.

They had worn those black-on-black uniforms as theyd terrorized Rifthold.

As theyd rounded up, tortured, and then butchered his men.

Then strung them along the palace gates to swing in the wind.

Where he himself would undoubtedly have been standing, monitoring all, while emissaries from a foreign kingdom arrived.

Not a trace of nerves flickered across her lovely, solemn face.

Chaol faced forward without saying a word.

The walls and pillars and arched doorways had ears and eyes and mouths, shed warned him.

No sword hung from his leather beltthe absence of that comforting weight like some phantom limb.

Or finding a healer in the Torre Cesme who could discover some way to get him walking again.

Tower of Dawn Sarah J. Maas