Midnight Auction

Magic has a market. The cruelest thing it sells is your name.

In the cities of the Binding, the Midnight Auction trades true names - and whoever speaks yours owns you, body and will, for as long as they live.

Lira Vess goes to the Auction to sell the last memory of her dead mother. She leaves having spent everything to buy a stranger's name instead - so that no crueler hand can hold it.

Now she owns Nox Severin: the most dangerous man alive, reduced to a single word in her mouth. Betrayed into...