The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series - 'The new Game of Thrones' (Stylist) Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years; she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One; and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose. To the north; in the Queendom of Inys; Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth; narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter; Glorian; trails in their shadow - exactly where she wants to be. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple; trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate. When the Dreadmount erupts; bringing with it an age of terror and violence; these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat. Intricate and epic; A Day of Fallen Night sweeps readers back to the world of A Priory of the Orange Tree; showing us a course of events that shaped it for generations to come.