Irene_Walker
The Archangel of Eximmer, the most feared assassin on the shattered continent and heir to the throne of assassins, has been supposedly dead for three years, thrown off the edge of a cliff as a sort of execution for not killing her target. That is until she shows up at her former target's castle. King Ian of Thuyet strikes a bargain with the Archangel and sends her to the ward at Silkstream. There she meets the young heir to the Silkstream barony, Ian's secret ward, a scholar, a traitor, and her former slave master. The Archangel manages to hide in the ward for the time, using the name of Meli Ryder, but her past as an assassin and her secrets are catching up with her. Her true name is one that is a death sentence to anyone who comes in contact with her.