Questa serie immerge i lettori in un mondo di potente nobiltà, agende nascoste e intrighi mortali. Segui i viaggi di giovani donne addestrate fin dalla nascita per essere assassine letali, destinate a servire il loro regno. Le narrazioni intrecciano azione elettrizzante, romanticismo nascente e tradimenti scioccanti. È un'esplorazione avvincente della forza e del dovere femminile sullo sfondo di macchinazioni politiche e segreti oscuri.
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converge in this thrilling sequel to Grave Mercy.
When Sybella arrived at the doorstep of St Mortain half mad with grief and despair, the convent was only too happy to offer her refuge - but at a price. The sisters of this convent serve Death, and with Sybella naturally skilled in both the arts of death and seduction, she could become one of their most dangerous weapons yet.
Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent.