1025 CE
The Chola Empire stands at the height of its power.
Its fleets rule the eastern seas. Its temples rise above the rice fields of the south. And in a lamp-lit hall, a princess stands before the Emperor to ask for something no one has asked before.
Far to the north, a father has crossed the known world with nothing but grief and a single clue. Somewhere between them, a man who sells pepper says he sells something else entirely.
COPPER is a historical epic about what one life is worth — and the people who refuse to count the cost.
Why copper
Gold is what men fight over. Copper is what nobody notices — the small, worn coin at the bottom of a trader's bag.
In this story, it is the cheapest thing in the room that starts a war.
Three worlds
The North
Snow, iron and wool. A Norse jarl's town on the edge of a frozen fjord.
The Chola Empire
Granite temples, monsoon rain and the busiest harbours of the eastern seas.
The Island
A fortress of black volcanic stone, where everything the sea brings belongs to one man.
The characters
Adhirai
Princess and commander of the Chola army
The calmest person in any room, and the last one you want to face across a battlefield. She speaks little. When she does, empires listen.
“So am I.”
Eirik
Norse jarl, father of Sigrid
A proud man from the edge of a frozen fjord, used to taking what he wants. Then someone takes the one thing he cannot live without — and grief carries him across the known world.
“I came for my daughter.”
Also in COPPER MaaranSigridVarahanRajendra Chola— revealed soon
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