Last First Snow the fourth novel set in Max Gladstones compellingly modern fantasy world of the Craft Sequence Forty years after the God Wars Dresediel Lex bears the scars of liberation-especially in the Skittersill a poor district still bound by the fallen gods decaying edicts As long as the gods wards last they strangle development when they fail demons will be loosed upon the city The King in Red hires Elayne Kevarian of the Craft firm Kelethres Albrecht and Ao to fix the wards but the Skittersills people have their own ideas A protest rises against Elaynes work led by Temoc a warrior-priest turned community organizer who wants to build a peaceful future for his city his wife and his young sonAs Elayne drags Temoc and the King in Red to the bargaining table old wounds reopen old gods stir in their graves civil blood breaks to new mutiny and profiteers circle in the desert sky Elayne and Temoc must fight conspiracy dark magic and their own demons to save the peace-or failing that to save as many people as they can.
