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...