Skullsworn

'Brilliant' V. E. Schwab, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Darker Shade of Magic For one apprentice assassin, the clock is ticking . . . Pyrre Lakatur doesnt like the description skullsworn. It doesnt capture the beauty of her devotion to Ananshael, God of Death. And shes not an assassin, but a priestess. Or she will be, if she can pass her final trial. The problem isnt killing, as Pyrre has spent her life training for this. The problem is love. To pass the trial, she will have fourteen days to kill seven people detailed in an ancient song, including one true love, who will not come again. However, Pyrre has never been in love, time is short, and if she fails shell be given to her god. Pyrres not afraid to die, but she hates to fail. So a month before the trial begins, she returns to the violent city of her birth, where she once offered an abusive father to the god. Here Pyrre hopes to find love and end it with the edge of her knife. 'Pleasantly grim and emotionally complex' Kirkus Reviews 'Lush, evocative descriptions . . . remarkably intimate' Publishers Weekly Skullsworn is a thrilling standalone set in the world of the Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne by Brian Staveley.