Fifty years after the establishment of the Imperium and the conquest of Aloor, and 450 years before the events of Isolate, Dominic Mikail Ysella—ancestor of Avraal Ysella—is the grandson of the last king of Aloor. With his family stripped of most of their lands, Dominic, as the third son, must support himself.  Dominic becomes a legalist and is elected to the Imperial Council quietly working as an isolate, someone unreadable by government telepaths.

Amid a time of a crumbling imperial line, Dominic must build a coalition within the Council and quietly draft a new constitution to save the Imperium from itself. Uncovering rampant corruption, graft, and with the potential to be arrested for treason, Ysella discovers any number of ways that simple legal specialist in water rights could get himself killed.

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Legalist
A Tor Hardcover
$32.99
978-1250385758
October 7, 2025