![]() ![]() ![]() Lately, rumors have been spreading that the cure no longer works, and people are starting to act on their worst impulses. ![]() She’s come to hate the dawn, which signals that it’s time for Weston to return to his home on the other side of the city, where he spends his days working in the grueling iron forge. ![]() She has reason to love Weston: he saved her life when she nearly followed her parents to the same fate. Tessa has reason to hate the king: her parents were publicly executed after they were caught selling medicine on the black market. At night, she and her best friend Weston Lark ride through the streets of the poorest towns, distributing food, money, and medicine they’ve stolen from the elite ruling class. Tessa Cade is a masked outlaw marked for death, but she likes it that way. The only way to keep the peace is to kill anyone who threatens it, and that task falls to young Prince Corrick. As sickness lingers among the people of Kandala, a sharp divide has formed, as those who control access to the medicine live in luxury–while the rest live in suffering. The one thing keeping his people alive is also driving them apart … the cure, made from the nectar of a rare flower. He’s had to ever since he and his brother Prince Corrick inherited a kingdom on the verge of collapse after a deadly illness killed most of the population before a cure was found. King Harristan rules Kandala with an iron fist. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |