Rose #12

Meredith Finch's fantasy series reaches its twelfth chapter with a cover that feels like a war painting — a white-haired young woman at the center of a battered group of warriors, swords drawn amid rubble and chaos, while a cold-eyed, silver-haired figure looms enormous in the sky above them. The contrast between that menacing presence overhead and the defiant band below gives the image a real sense of dramatic stakes. Ig Guara's artwork brings a cinematic sweep to the scene that fans of epic fantasy will find hard to resist.