Malanthia: The Dark Violet

She was fifteen when they took her from the kitchen.

Malanthia Duvenne grows up in a village of violets, warm bread, and small mercies. Then a carriage arrives with a serpent on the door, and the girl who pressed flowers into books is taken north to Stonemouth Keep-where the Greythorn regime trains children to become instruments.

Five years later, she has a new name.

Seraphine, Commander of the Queen's Guard, is everything the Keep intended: precise, disciplined, and deadly. She has been taugh...