Cast in Peril is the eighth instalment in Michelle Sagara’s “Chronicles of Elantra” series. From the beginning, this series has followed Private Kaylin Neya of the Hawks, the investigative police force of the multi-species city of Elantra, as she stumbles, crashes, and sometimes skids through the various investigations and occasional crises that have a happy knack of threatening her existence, and intermittently the city’s, too.
Cast in Peril is the first volume to take Kaylin out of Elantra, and even further out of her comfort zone than she’s been forced to go so far. Manipulated into traveling with the Barrani Caste Court on their annual (somewhat mysterious) pilgrimage to the West March by the fieflord Nightshade, on a journey that will take at least eight weeks and may well terminate in peril and danger, it’s understandable that Kaylin isn’t the happiest traveler ever informed by her superiors that she had to set out.
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