Whispers of Duplicity

Raped. Beaten. Tortured. Enslaved. The words lay heavy on her shoulders, but she would not break beneath their cruelty. Not when so many lives depended on her to avenge what had been taken from them. Sending a final prayer to the gods she no longer believed in, Kaija untucked the knife from the thin cloth of her shirt and dragged it across the throat of the soldier who had raped her.

16-year old Kaija Wess was an assassin until her continent was taken over by an Emperor with no love for her race. Sentenced to a life of slavery, Kaija plans her retribution on the people who killed her family and the Empire that tried to break her. In a world where magic has been ripped from her, the love of her life is her enemy, and she's been left with nothing, Kaija fights to stay above the darkness that surrounds her to save those she's grown to love.