![]() ![]() Will Sybella and Genevieve find each other, or even learn each other’s information, before things come crashing down? They alternate narrating in first-person present, with great immediacy. Danger’s everywhere-rape, murder-and love is a risk. Sybella and Genevieve have brilliant skills-killing, scheming, spying, protecting, and sometimes finding Mortain’s grace-but everyone who holds power abuses it terribly. Meanwhile, Genevieve, another assassin/daughter of Mortain, languishes in an undercover placement in France, instruction-less-so she builds herself a plan. Having changed the nature of death (incomprehensibly) in Mortal Heart (2014), LaFevers ignores that and focuses on Sybella’s doubt about how to serve her father, Mortain-the god of Death-without the black marques that previously showed her whom to kill. ![]() The duchess promises, when queen, to protect Sybella’s young sisters from their brother’s house, where the men molested Sybella ( Dark Triumph, 2013). ![]() Sybella, a trained assassin, escorts Brittany’s duchess to France to marry King Charles. History, intrigue, and peril in 15th-century Brittany and France. ![]()
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