If he was trying to distract her, it wasn’t going to work. There was nothing but the service upstairs. His paring knife hung limp in his fingers as he listened. “Did you hear that?” Konstantin acted like she hadn’t spoken. She hadn’t anticipated losing her entire day to remedial labor, yet here she was. The table was covered in potato peel spirals. Now go wither in the cellars for the rest of your life, Nadezhda.” “You could change the tide of the war, Nadezhda. “A cleric’s duty is important, Nadezhda,” she muttered, mimicking the dour tone of the monastery’s abbot. She twisted her knife hard against the one in her hand, narrowly missing skin as she curled the peel into a spiral. Nadezhda Lapteva glared up at the mountain of potatoes threatening to avalanche down over the table. It was late afternoon, just before Vespers, a time where psalms to the gods were given up in an effortless chorus. The calming echo of a holy chant filtered down from the sanctuary and into the cellars. She can grant any spell to those she has blessed, her reach is the fabric of magic itself. She is constant she is unrelenting she is eternal. A bitter cycle that Marzenya spins with crimson threads around pale fingers.

Duncan’s devastatingly Gothic Something Dark and Holy trilogy.Death, magic, and winter. Wicked Saints is the thrilling start to Emily A. In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war. 'If you like your young adult fantasy full of ice, blood, and angst, Wicked Saints will sweep you up in its wintery embrace.' - NPRĪ girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.Ī prince in danger must decide who to trust.Ī boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings.

“This book destroyed me and I adored it.”- Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval “Prepare for a snow-frosted, blood-drenched fairy tale where the monsters steal your heart and love ends up being the nightmare.” - Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen

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