By Amy McCulloch
Fifteen-year-old Raim lives in an international the place you tie a knot for each promise that you just make. holiday that promise and also you are scarred for all times, and forged out into the desert.
Raim has worn an easy knot round his wrist for so long as he can bear in mind. nobody is familiar with the place it got here from, and which promise of his it symbolises, yet he slightly thinks approximately it at all—not when you consider that changing into the main promising younger fighter ever to coach for the elite Yun protect. yet at the most crucial day of his existence, while he binds his lifestyles to his ally (and destiny king) Khareh, the string bursts into flames and sears a gloomy mark into his skin.
Scarred now as an oath-breaker, Raim has concepts: run, or be killed.
A gripping YA action-adventure delusion, the 1st a part of a deliberate duology
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