Red Sister
of Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author)
Series: Book of the Ancestor #1
Description
I was born for killing â the gods made me to ruin.At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novicesâ skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist.But even the mistresses of sword and shadow donât truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder: guilty of worse.Stolen from the shadow of the noose, Nona is sought by powerful enemies, and for good reason. Despite the security and isolation of the convent her secret and violent past will find her out. Beneath a dying sun that shines upon a crumbling empire, Nona Grey must come to terms with her demons and learn to become a deadly assassin if she is to surviveâŠ
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 469 pages
- Publisher Ace
- Publication Date April 4th 2017
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9781101988855
- Edition Not informed
- Category Science Fiction & Fantasy
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