The Prince Without Sorrow by Barnaby Walter

The fantasy debut sensation of 2025 🐆🐆🐆

WELCOME TO THE RAN EMPIRE.

Where winged serpents fly through the skies.

Giant leopards prowl the earth.

And witches burn blue as they die.

Shakti is a witch, a mayakari trained to commune with nature and never to cause harm. But her people have been hunted by Emperor Adil’s brutal reign for decades. Will she betray their most sacred laws and choose violence to save them?

Prince Ashoka was raised by his father, the emperor, to rule the world with cruelty and fear. And yet he can’t even kill a deer and detests his father’s brutality. He must find a way to tear apart his father’s violent legacy before succumbing to it.

Together they are powerful.

But can the son of an oppressor and the oppressed fix a broken world?

Before they are crushed by it …

27 Mar 2025 | HB | 9780008672041 | £18.99

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