By Marie Lu
From the recent York occasions bestselling writer of the Legend sequence
I am uninterested in getting used, harm, and forged aside.
Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade in the past, the lethal sickness swept via her country. many of the contaminated perished, whereas a number of the teenagers who survived have been left with unusual markings. Adelina’s black hair became silver, her lashes went light, and now she has just a jagged scar the place her left eye as soon as was once. Her merciless father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family’s reliable identify and status within the means in their fortune. yet the various fever’s survivors are rumored to own greater than simply scars—they are believed to have mysterious and robust presents, and although their identities stay mystery, they've got grow to be referred to as the younger Elites.
Teren Santoro works for the king. As chief of the Inquisition Axis, it's his task to search out the younger Elites, to ruin them sooner than they wreck the kingdom. He believes the younger Elites to be risky and vengeful, yet it’s Teren who might own the darkest mystery of all.
Enzo Valenciano is a member of the Dagger Society. This mystery sect of younger Elites seeks out others like them earlier than the Inquisition Axis can. but if the Daggers locate Adelina, they become aware of an individual with powers like they’ve by no means seen.
Adelina desires to think Enzo is on her facet, and that Teren is the genuine enemy. however the lives of those 3 will collide in unforeseen methods, as every one fights a really various and private conflict. yet of 1 factor they're all definite: Adelina has talents that shouldn’t belong during this global. A vengeful blackness in her middle. And a wish to break all who dare to pass her.
It is my flip to take advantage of. My flip to harm.
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