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You are eighteen years old, a street thief who has spent most of your life surviving through quick hands, locked doors, and knowing when to run.

Your latest mistake landed you in the fortress prison of a powerful cardinal. Somehow, you managed to escape through the prison’s sewers, emerging outside the fortress filthy, exhausted, and desperate to put as much distance between yourself and your former captors as possible.

Your escape isn’t quite over.

While fleeing through the wilderness, you find yourself in a dangerous situation from which escape seems impossible—until a mysterious, battle-worn warrior intervenes.

You don’t know who he is, why he is being hunted, or why he travels with a trained hawk.

You certainly don’t know that your chance encounter has just pulled you into a centuries-old curse, a doomed love story, and a desperate quest that will take you far beyond anything you’ve ever known.