Nothing but me, the merchant I’d caught a ride with in town, and that towering mass of structured stone in the distance that was to be my new home.
They were all just the desert’s cruel trick. Or an Afar caravan carting slabs of salt cut from the desert’s floor to be sold in the market. Others, a snake looking to escape under a rock. Sometimes they came as ripples on a pool of water. Heat waves created illusions of life out on the sand. I clutched my satchel, squinting against the dying sun. Stunningly romantic, Lauren Blackwood's heartstopping debut, Within These Wicked Walls, ushers in an exciting new fantasy voice.Sweltering heat hit me like the sudden leap of a bonfire when I traded the protection of the mule-drawn cart’s tarp for burning sand. But leaving Magnus to live out his curse alone isn’t an option because-heaven help her-she’s fallen for him. Death is the most likely outcome if she stays, the reason every debtera before her quit. If Andromeda wants to earn a living, she has no choice.īut she quickly realizes this is a job like no other, with horrifying manifestations at every turn, and that Magnus is hiding far more than she has been trained for. Never mind that he’s rude and demanding and eccentric, that the contract comes with a number of outlandish rules… and that almost a dozen debtera had quit before her. When a handsome young heir named Magnus Rochester reaches out to hire her, she takes the job without question.
Now her only hope of steady work is to find a Patron-a rich, well-connected individual who will vouch for her abilities.
She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn’t thrown her out before she could earn her license. Kiersten White meets Tomi Adeyemi in this Ethiopian-inspired fantasy retelling of Jane EyreĪndromeda is a debtera-an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye.
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