Books like Assassin by Anna Myers

Fitz, an illegitimate son raised by a stableman, is secretly trained as an assassin by the court’s cunning king while harboring the kingdom‑shaping magic known as the Skill.

A master assassin mentors a street orphan, forcing him to abandon his past and assume a deadly identity in a city where politics, magic, and murder collide.

Durzo Blint, a master assassin, mentors Azoth, a street‑born survivor, as Azoth learns the perilous politics and dark magic of his world.

Addy's journey to freedom teaches her about friendship and resilience in the aftermath of the American Civil War.

When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue American hostages in Iran, they are drawn into a hunt for six nuclear bombs hidden in Middle Eastern oil fields, uncovering a web of WMDs, betrayal, and a genetically engineered assassin brotherhood.

Addy, a young girl of African American heritage, discovers friendship and the power of a birthday in 1865 Philadelphia, facing racial prejudice.

Twelve‑year‑old Hannalee Reed leaves her family in Georgia for Indiana during the Civil War and vows to return, confronting the hardships of mill life and the uncertainty of a nation at war.

Addy discovers a beautiful red scarf at a secondhand shop but is torn between helping newly freed slaves and saving money for her mother's Christmas.

The era leading up to the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 was defined by enormous expansion in American industry and muscle-flexing abroad as well as the potent rise of labor unrest and revolutionary ideas such as anarchy. The growth of railroads, steel output, consumer goods, patents and sheer American ingenuity enriched the captains of industry, while the laborers, assembly-line workers, coal miners and armies of poor immigrants performed mind-numbing tasks for quarters and dimes per day. «Wall Street Journal» correspondent Miller harnesses several narratives successively. He moves between the coffer-rich Republican election of the self-made man and Civil War hero McKinley against the populist William Jennings Bryan, to the meeting between the painfully shy working-class loner in Cleveland, Leon Czolgosz, and the charismatic anarchist speaker Emma Goldman. Fired up by Goldman’s words on social revolution and liberty—which in turn had emerged from a movement that Miller neatly traces from the work of Edmund Burke, William Godwin and the Transcendentalists—Czolgosz steeled himself for the “propaganda of the deed”—e.g., the kind of deadly terrorism that was rocking European capitals in the 1890s. Meanwhile, McKinley was faced with international crises that he would manipulate effectively for American imperialist gain, such as the annexation of Hawaii, defeat of Spain for the protectorate of Cuba and the Philippines, takeover of Guam and Puerto Rico and an attempted Open Door policy toward China (thwarted by the Boxer Rebellion). This is a wildly complex and significant period in American history, and Miller does a solid job of attending to the many boiling pots on the stove. [Kirkus Reviews][1] [1]: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/scott-miller/president-and-assassin/

Fourteen‑year‑old Sarah disguises herself as a boy to escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, enlisting in the Union Army and serving as a spy in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War.

Teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley joins abolitionist raiders known as Jayhawkers, freeing slaves in Missouri before infiltrating the state as a covert spy during the Civil War.

A young Emily Pigbush discovers her uncle may be a body snatcher while friends face accusations of conspiring to kill Abraham Lincoln, forcing her to decide whom to trust.

A pictorial exploration of the eight conspirators linked to Lincoln’s assassination, featuring portraits, artifacts, photographs, prints, and letters.

Private detective Isaac Bell hunts a lethal assassin targeting rivals of Standard Oil, racing across the US and the Caspian region to protect a crucial government contract.

A Quaker girl’s 1861 life in Indiana shifts when her family’s North Carolina Underground Railroad station confronts the outbreak of the Civil War.

A sixteen‑year‑old orphan's wartime diary chronicles the experiences of his Union Army unit during the American Civil War.

A ten‑year‑old girl in Washington, D.C., chronicles life as the Civil War ends and President Lincoln is assassinated, offering a personal glimpse of a pivotal moment in 1864‑65.