FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LADY MACBETH AND A STUDY IN DROWNING
''There''s one thing about Ava Reid; she doesn''t miss.'' Sasha Peyton Smith
''You''ll start saving space on your shelf for Ava Reid.'' Kendare Blake
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The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything.
By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.
Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt-enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus-s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb-s Gauntlet.
Melino-s a Caerus assassin, trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs. The product of
