« Corambis » Sarah Monette

Prince Gerrard Hume dies in an attempt to start the sinister Cymellunar engine, which he hoped would help win Caloxa’s independence from Corambis. Blinded by the engine, Kay Brightmore, the margrave of Rothmarlin and the prince’s illicit lover, is imprisoned by Corambis’s duke of Glimmering. Meanwhile, far away in Bernatha, gay wizard Felix Harrowgate returns to prostitution to raise money when his half–brother becomes ill, but is gang–raped by Corambins in a ritual that restarts the Clock of Eclipses, another terrible Cymellunar device.