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And in the end, it will take more than wits and knives to cut themselves free.
But all three have yet to discover just how far that web stretches.
And it shows her the web of darkness that traps her city.
Caught in a Knot of lies, torn between her heritage and her aristocratic masquerade, she relies on her gift for reading pattern to survive.
And Ren, daughter of no clan, knows best of all.
Sooner or later, that fight will demand more than he can give.
Bent under the yoke of too many burdens, he fights to protect the city\'s most vulnerable.
Grey Serrado knows all too well.
He\'ll be damned if he lets anyone threaten what he\'s built.
He has sacrificed more than anyone imagines to carve himself a position of power and influence among the nobility, hiding a will of steel behind a velvet smile.
Derossi Vargo has always known.
The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city\'s filthy alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look.
In Nadezra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread.
And the rope that hangs us.
Trust is the thread that binds us.
A con artist, a vigilante, and a crime lord unite to save their city from the slow corruption of dark and dangerous magic in this dazzling fantasy adventure