The Rising World · Book 2
Queen Demon
- Published
- 7 October 2025
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781250826916
- Type
- novel
About this book
Queen Demon is the second entry in Martha Wells' The Rising World series, published in October 2025 at 400 pages. It follows Witch King in the reading order, with a third and final volume planned to complete the trilogy.
Its place in The Rising World
Queen Demon is book 2 in the The Rising World series. It follows Witch King. See the full The Rising World reading order.
Kai Bashevi wakes up drowned and imprisoned in an underwater vault, having been murdered by someone he trusted -- and as a witch king, dying is more of an inconvenience than an ending. Witch King (2023) unfolds on two timelines at once: Kai's present-day hunt for whoever betrayed him and why, and the buried history of the war and revolution that brought his world's current order into being, gradually revealing how those two stories are the same story. It's one of Martha Wells's most structurally ambitious books…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250826916