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After vanquishing a corrupt margrave, breaking a deadly curse, and finding love with the meticulous Junior Prefect Emeric Conrad, Vanja Schmidt faces her most daunting mystery yet: her long‑lost birth family. In the pursuit of a respectable trade, Vanja invents the Scarlet Maiden, a fabricated deity, to escape her troubles—only to watch the deception spiral into a dangerous reality. Emeric, tasked with verifying Vanja’s integrity, finds himself drawn into a perilous plot where the Scarlet Maiden threatens to claim him as a sacrificial maiden. Together they must navigate a landscape of monsters, divine intrigue, and their own tangled pasts, questioning whether a thief and a prefect can forge a future without sacrificing their souls.
First publish date: 2022
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Fantasy
Authors: Margaret Owen
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