![]() ![]() ![]() In a castle that d’Albret stole from Brittany’s steadfast 13-year-old duchess, Sybella waits to see a marque on d’Albret’s body so she can kill him with Mortain’s grace. Now Sybella’s a trained assassin, serving Mortain, the god of Death. Unknown to Ismae, Sybella is d’Albret’s daughter, raised in a household in which her kindest brother demanded sex from her and their father murdered wife after wife. ![]() Readers last glimpsed Sybella through Ismae’s eyes ( Grave Mercy, 2012), serving in the entourage of d’Albret, a bloodthirsty Breton noble. An assassin with a will of steel fights her way through deadly palace deceptions, sickening sexual servitude and baffling assignments from her convent, becoming a major player in Brittany’s 15th-century resistance of French occupation. ![]()
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