By Right of Blood.
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You are the sin I must erase. But first, I must understand.
In a world where magic is bound within stones, people like Anna are an anomaly. Their power flows through their veins without a medium. An ancient blood gift, its origins forgotten even by those who bear it. The Inquisition calls it heresy. Officer Kiron is an executioner, tasked with purging the world of this corruption.
When Anna returns to the city after her parents' death, their meeting is inevitable. Kiron is her best friend's fiancé. He is calm and methodical. He breaks people like her into splinters. But after an explosion, when Anna saves his life using forbidden magic, an invisible bond forms between them. The one that should never have existed.
Now, he hunts her not just as an inquisitor. There is hunger in his eyes, a craving for what the Inquisition has ordered him to hate. In her chest there is fear of a man whose fingers know how to snap the ribs of heretics.
How can she protect herself from the Inquisition's claws and avoid becoming a pawn in the games of power-hungry players when she's just a piece on the board?
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