The Mercy of Hollow Saints

The church built her to feel nothing.

She feels everything.

Three months after her Unmaking - the sacred ritual that should have emptied Vesper Ashcroft of self and filled her with holy fire - she still feels every forbidden thing. Fury. Grief. Desire. She has learned to wear emptiness like a saint's robes: white, clean, and entirely a lie.

When saints begin dying inside the Sanctum's walls, a heretic scholar is assigned to study her - cold, brilliant, and carrying a secret about her Unmaking ...