Empire of the Dawn
core novel 2025 Empire of the Vampire
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.58 (20,885 ratings, collected 2026-08-24) |
| Page count | 800 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250245373 |
Synopsis
Empire of the Dawn, published in November 2025, is the third and concluding book in Jay Kristoff's Empire of the Vampire trilogy. Having lost his family, his faith, and now his adopted daughter Dior, Gabriel de Leon leads a small band of loyal companions into the war-ravaged heart of the Augustin Empire, driven by a singular desire for vengeance against the Forever King. Unaware that the legendary Holy Grail may still be active and racing toward the empire's besieged capital in a parallel effort to end the eternal night known as Daysdeath, Gabriel presses forward through a landscape shaped by decades of vampire rule. As old allies and enemies converge on the capital and the schemes of those in power grow more dangerous, Gabriel must decide what, if anything, he has left to fight for beyond revenge.
Where it sits
- Universe: Empire of the Vampire
- Series: Empire of the Vampire core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jay Kristoff
Notes
- From the series record (Empire of the Vampire): The complete, finished trilogy; no further volumes planned.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Empire of the Vampire: position 3 of 3: previous Empire of the Damned (2023)
Sources
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