In the after­math of a colos­sal bat­tle, Daenarys Targaryen rules with her three dra­gons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenarys has thou­sands of ene­mies, and many have set out to fond her. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way east – with new allies who may not be the rag­tag band they seem. And in the fro­zen north, Jon Snow confronts crea­tures from beyond the Wall of ice and stone, and power­ful foes from within the Night’s Watch. In a time of rising res­t­less­ness, the tides of des­ti­ny and poli­tics lead a grand cast of out­laws and priests, sol­diers and skin­chan­gers, nobles and slaves, to the grea­test dance of all.