"We can\'t be monsters, Nix.
Someone else decided her name should go down in Cantamen\'s history, but she\'s going to make sure she earns more than a mention..
Revolutions are hard-won, and the lines between right and wrong, friend and foe, and even leader and lover soon blur.
With no other options, she\'s plunged into a new world of codenames, fighting, spying, broken families, and ruined futures.
They offer protection, and a home, in exchange for her Magic and the darkness within it.
Before she reaches the prison, she\'s taken by a band of criminals who tell her the reason for her fate: the Council wants to eliminate all witches with dark affinities.
We\'re the good guys." Five years before the events of Cantamen, Lilac Frazier is convicted of a crime she did not commit. "We can\'t be monsters, Nix
