I wavered, my attention split, panic choking me, until someone else shoved into the woman and knocked her away from me. I found myself caught between foes-my right arm entangled with one woman, our shortswords locked together, my left shoving back a man with an arm and a knee up on the edge of the parapet and a long knife in his free hand. When the Chancellor succumbs to an unknown poison and an army lays siege to the city, Jovan and his sister Kalina must protect the Heir and save their city-state.īut treachery lurks in every corner, and the ancient spirits of the land are rising…and angry. In secret, he’s a master of poisons and chemicals, trained to protect the Chancellor’s family from treachery. Outwardly, Jovan is the lifelong friend of the Chancellor’s charming, irresponsible Heir. I was seven years old the first time my uncle poisoned me…

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