Navola

Davico is the sole heir to the most important merchant family in Navola—the di Regulai, who are also the largest bank around. Davico is being trained to follow in his father’s footsteps as a personable man with ruthlessness simmering right under the surface. When a wealthy family tries to cheat Davico’s father, that family’s towering home is razed, and their eldest daughter, Celia, is taken hostage as Davico’s new “sister.” Davico grows up under the watchful eye of his family, Celia, and a mysterious and sinisterly powerful relic—a fossilized dragon eye, deadly sharp and malevolent. Then, on his Assumption day, Davico is betrayed by those closest to him, changing the trajectory of Navola forever. Bacigalupi’s (The Water Knife) new genre-bending fantasy is a coming-of-age tale set in a mob-like family, full of intrigue, betrayal, and the lust for power, status, and money.