A fantastical game of political intrigue played by a fraud, where the grumpy snark of K. S. Villoso's The Wolf of Oren-Yaro meets a rich Eastern European-inflected world akin to Ava Reid's The Wolf and the Woodsman. A plucky, sardonic con artist must "prophesize" her way out of peril-- discovering along the way that the keys to power and politics are nothing more than the stories that we can sell as truth. Kalyna's...