The story begins like a Vampire Romance; but it isn't. The Provider System keeps the peace. A lottery of souls. A year of service to the Vythari-ageless predators who feed not on blood, but on your very essence. They crave your memories, your terror, your despair. It's the price of survival. Avenne thought she was safe. Nineteen years she'd hidden behind her grandfather's scholarly reputation. But now her name has been called. To survive, Avenne must offer herself to the one being more dangerous than the system itself, entering a deadly game of cat and mouse where the prize is her own mind, and her opponent has been playing for centuries.
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