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In the years since Yaksha Malla's death, the Kathmandu Valley has divided into three rival kingdoms—Bhaktapur, Patan, and Kathmandu—watching one another with wary eyes as taxes rise and alliances shift like threads in an unfinished cloth.
Vikram, a young assistant scribe in the royal library of Bhaktapur with an uncommon memory for patterns, discovers a hidden scroll bearing an ancient prophecy: the division that seemed permanent is only the beginning of something worse. As envoys move between courts and whispers of ambition travel faster than the Bagmati's current, Vikram and the discreet scholar Pandit Ramchandra must decide whether the threads they hold are strong enough to hold the valley together.
An alternate-history novel of the Malla Dynasty in Nepal.