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Kill or be killed.

That's the tenet Iriel has lived by since she joined the Ghosts, an elite guild of assassins who trained her to be silent, loyal, and merciless.

But everything changes the day she learns the truth: she wasn’t rescued as a child—she was stolen. Her mentor, the man who shaped her into a living weapon, used forbidden blood magic to warp her very nature and erase her entire past.

Now, Iriel is on the run. All she wants is to vanish, find the family she was torn from, and forget the name the Ghosts gave her.

If only it were that easy.

When Iriel’s new companions—a group of ragtag mercenaries avoiding their own troubled pasts—drag her on a doomed mission to find a missing girl, Iriel walks straight into a deadly trap. Her old mentor wants her dead. And she’s done running away.

Fueled by fury and vengeance, Iriel sets out to kill the man that stole her life, all while balancing the painful aftereffects of her rare ability to manipulate time.

But the coming battle won’t be easy, and with an evil, centuries-buried power beginning to stir, Iriel must decide whether to run away and find the family she's desperately been seeking or to accept that the only way to stop her mentor—and to save thousands of lives—is to potentially sacrifice her own.

After all, some evils can only be killed by their own creations.

In 1883, Cecilia Hayden lost everything in a single night—her home in Denver, her best friend Rosamund, and any sense of self-respect. For five years, she's lived as an outcast in London, drowning in guilt. So when she receives a letter from Rosamund asking her to visit the remote silver mining town of Gothic, Colorado, Cecilia sees a chance for redemption.

 There’s just one issue: Upon arriving, Cecilia learns Rosamund has been dead for two years. She didn’t write the letter—and she’ll certainly never forgive Cecilia now.

Hoping to uncover who wrote to her, Cecilia stays at the vacant Gothic Inn, which Rosamund had helped run alongside her husband’s eclectic family. But when ghostly apparitions of Rosamund start to haunt the inn—and Cecilia—she becomes suspicious of the family’s involvement in her friend’s tragic death. The situation grows even worse when Wesley, Rosamund’s ex-fiancé and the only man Cecilia has ever loved, arrives in Gothic in strangely coincidental circumstances.

Determined to get justice for, if not forgiveness from, Rosamund, Cecilia quietly investigates Rosamund’s in-laws, uncovering years of familial hatred, betrayal, and tragic deaths, all while trying to ignore her rekindled feelings for Wesley. And the more Cecilia digs, the more she realizes that exposing the truth about Rosamund’s death may come at the price of her own sanity.

Sisenna Regillensis, daughter of the emperor of Luca, has always lived in the shadow of her siblings. She lacks her eldest brother’s sense of duty, her older sister’s grace, and her youngest brother’s charm. And yet somehow she manages to survive the assassins who murder her parents and sister the night of her youngest brother’s memorial dinner.

Ousted from her seat of power and hunted by her treacherous uncle, Sisenna is tossed into the streets with nothing but her loyal bodyguard and her wits for protection. With allies scarce, Sisenna hires a band of smugglers to sneak her across the continent in search of her eldest brother, hoping to warn him of their uncle’s treachery before he, too, meets his end on an assassin’s blade. The journey is fraught with peril, from relentless assassins to mischievous gods who’ve made a game of the power struggle. But the hardest challenge comes when Sisenna discovers her sister Ravilla is actually still alive and, now married to their cousin, in line for the throne.

Sisenna has never wanted to lead. She’s always avoided the weight of responsibility. Yet she must now reconcile with the reality that to save her brother, exact revenge on her uncle, and reclaim what was stolen, she must face her own grief, fear, and doubt—and eventually confront the sister she never imagined would become her enemy.