Red Sister
Lawrence, Mark, 1966-2017
Book
At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices' skills to deadly effect: it takes 10 years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of 8, falsely accused of murder: guilty of worse. Stolen from the shadow of the noose, Nona is sought by powerful enemies, and for good reason. Despite the security and isolation of the convent her secret and violent past will find her out. Beneath a dying sun that shines upon a crumbling empire, Nona Grey must come to terms with her demons and learn to become a deadly assassin if she is to survive.
Main title:
Red Sister / Mark Lawrence.
Author:
Lawrence, Mark, 1966-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Harper Voyager, 2017.
Collation:
500 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Book of the ancestor ; 1.
ISBN:
9780008152291 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2472064