Four Roads Cross
core novel 2016 The Craft Sequence
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.34 (3,212 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| Page count | 416 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765379429 |
Synopsis
Four Roads Cross returns to Alt Coulumb, following the events of Last First Snow, as the unexpected return of the moon goddess Seril, long thought destroyed in the God Wars, sparks public unrest and protests across the city. Tara Abernathy, now serving as in-house Craftswoman for the fire god Kos Everburning's church, must defend the institution when its creditors attempt a hostile takeover backed by a formidable necromantic firm, complicated further by the involvement of a former classmate turned rising Craftswork star. While Tara fights the takeover through contracts, courtroom maneuvering, and Craft itself, old friends Cat, a recovering addict and vigilante, and Raz, a vampiric ship captain, are drawn into a separate confrontation with monster pirates threatening the harbor. The two storylines intertwine as the fate of Alt Coulumb's oldest church, and its newly returned goddess, hangs in the balance.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Craft Sequence
- Series: The Craft Sequence core; position 5 of 9 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Max Gladstone
Notes
- From the series record (The Craft Sequence): The first six novels are each independently standalone within one shared world rather than a single strict reading order (the author's own note); the final three, marketed as 'The Craft Wars', form a direct continuation that does run forward in time book to book. All nine are treated as one Core Canon sequence per this project's usual practice for a single author's continuous secondary-world project.
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 The Craft Sequence: position 5 of 9: previous Last First Snow (2015) · next The Ruin of Angels (2017)
Sources
- Encyclopedic overview: The Craft Sequence
- Author's own series page: The Craft Sequence
- https://www.maxgladstone.com/writing/four-roads-cross/
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