<p><strong>Woman, shapeshifter, healer – who is she?</strong><br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>"Stafa shivered, a soft encouraging purr bursting from him. Relax, let it out. She stood with her shoulders dropped and allowed the cat to take over. It slid around her mind, sinking into her body. Her partial change made her look grotesque, neither cat nor human, a nightmare. It was the worst of both worlds and it was all she had left."<br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p>Cassai has managed the unthinkable by killing thousands and Ackbarr can no longer ignore the tiny country defying them. Mika must make a choice who she stands with – her adopted country or the homeland who expelled her as an animal. In the meantime, her grip on the human world is sliding...<br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p>War Lord of Ackbarr is the fifth and final book of The Medici Chronicles</p><p><br></p><p>The countries of Cassai and Ackbarr have held an uneasy truce for many years, with Cassai hidden between its ring of mountains and the sea beyond. The Medici Chronicles charts twenty years of Mika's life through her marriage and subsequent escape into the Medici – a caste of healers and doctors. Always the outsider, in her search for the truth about her brother's disappearance Mika uncovers more than she bargains for - she has been lied to - about her past, her people and her country.<br type="_moz"></p>