Ohh, I didn't know this. I gotta get this now. Where is it set?

"The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone" series is set in another dimension, though the lost colony of Roanoke was taken there a couple of thousand years before the series begins.

WARNING: SPOILERS in this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdoms_of_Thorn_and_Bone

Despite the similarity to Alessia's slave revolt, the series is not connected with the Elder Scrolls universe.

My career has always involved a ton of reading, and I've also consumed a fair bit of extracurricular lit. So I tend to be very selective in what I pickup and often don't finish a lot of the 'fun' books I start.

Mostly I was asking for my wife, who is an avid reader and not a gamer nor much of a fantasy junkie. It sounds like this book would actually be a poor choice for someone with little background or inherent interest in the TES universe.

What? I was saying about the The Infernal City.

Sorry. "The Infernal City" has scenes in Argonia, Cyrodiil, Elsweyr, the city of Umbriel, one site on Vvardenfell (I don't want to spoil it further), and the plane of Oblivion. We don't hear much about the Redguards in the novel, and Skyrim has become more dangerous for outsiders from the sound of it.