Name: The Orb of Cairado
Rating: 3.7666666666666666 (15 reviews)
ISBN: 9781645242147

Set in the world of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee The Goblin Emperor, The Orb of Cairado offers an unlikely hero in historian Ulcetha Zhorvena. Five years ago, Ulcetha was studying at the University of Cairado, working his way toward becoming a scholar first-class in the Department of History. Then a prize artifact disappeared and Ulcetha, deftly framed, was kicked out. Now he works for a crooked importer, using his knowledge of elven history to write provenances for the fake artifacts Salathgarad sells. When the airship Wisdom of Choharo explodes, killing the emperor and three of his four sons, it takes with it Ulcetha's best friend, Mara Lilana. But Mara leaves behind a puzzle--the one thing Ulcetha can't resist. And the puzzle leads Ulcetha back to the Department of History...and maybe the chance to clear his name.

Katherine Addison is the fantasy pen name of American writer Sarah Monette. Her fiction explores conscience, duty, grief, and the practical work of kindness within intricate social and political systems.

The Goblin Emperor won the 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Addison returned to its world in the Cemeteries of Amalo sequence: The Witness for the Dead, The Grief of Stones, and The Tomb of Dragons. She also wrote the alternate-Victorian fantasy The Angel of the Crows and the novella The Orb of Cairado.

Writing as Sarah Monette, she is also the author of the Doctrine of Labyrinths novels, short-fiction collections, and the Iskryne trilogy with Elizabeth Bear. She lives near Madison, Wisconsin.