She has power over death.
Can Ruying trust this prince, whose promises of a better world make her heart ache and whose smiles make her pulse beat faster? Are the evils of this agreement really in the service of a much greater good? Or will she betray her entire nation by protecting those she loves the most?.
But to accept this bargain, she must use the powers she has always feared, powers that will shave years off her own existence.
When Ruying\'s Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, he offers her an impossible deal: If she becomes his private assassin and eliminates his political rivals--whose deaths he swears would be for the good of both their worlds and would protect her people from further brutalization--her family will never starve or suffer harm again.
Especially because she wants to keep herself and her family safe.
Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies, Ruying shouldn\'t have to fear these foreign invaders, but she does.
Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen.
Chang spins a tale at the intersection of science fiction, fantasy, and the very real devastation that colonialism brings down on colonized peoples.--Xiran Jay Zhao, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Iron Widow Heroes die, cowards live. or ignite one? With hauntingly poetic prose, Molly X. . .
When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will they end a war .
He has power over her.
She has power over death
