The Merciful Crow, a gritty YA fantasy about a young chieftain from a persecuted caste of mercy-killers who must rely on her wits and bone magic to smuggle the crown prince to safety.
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As a chieftain in the making of the Crow caste, sixteen-year-old Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when her family is called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime.
Instead, they find a still-living crown prince, his too-cunning bodyguard, and a common foe: the ruthless usurper queen who wants them all dead. What no one expects is Fie’s price: she will smuggle the prince across the nation before the queen hunts him down. But in return, he will guarantee the Crows’ safety once he reigns.
If Fie can keep the deal, she’ll bring an end to her peoples’ hardship. But with the queen’s brutal hunters on their trail, every step puts her family in greater danger, forcing Fie to make the sacrifices that define a true leader.
Kings become outcasts and lovers become foes in The Faithless Hawk, the thrilling sequel to The Merciful Crow.
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As the new chieftain of the Crows, Fie knows better than to expect a royal to keep his word. Still she’s hopeful that Prince Jasimir will fulfill his oath to protect her fellow Crows. But then black smoke fills the sky, signaling the death of King Surimir and the beginning of Queen Rhusana’s merciless bid for the throne.
With the witch queen using the deadly plague to unite the nation of Sabor against Crows―and add numbers to her monstrous army―Fie and her band are forced to go into hiding, leaving the country to be ravaged by the plague. However, they’re all running out of time before the Crows starve in exile and Sabor is lost forever.
A desperate Fie calls on old allies to help take Rhusana down from within her own walls. But inside the royal palace, the only difference between a conqueror and a thief is an army. To survive, Fie must unravel not only Rhusana’s plot, but ancient secrets of the Crows―secrets that could save her people, or set the world ablaze.
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