The Widow's Blade
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Thirty-year-old Lady Alisandre Renaut had always been perfect: the perfect daughter, the perfect wife, and the perfect lady of Renaut Manor. And when her husband, Lord Corwin, is murdered one fateful night, Alisandre is expected to mourn quietly behind silk curtains like the perfect widow.
But Alisandre has other plans.
Wealthy, widowed, and restless, she trades her silks for steel and sets her sights on a life she was never meant to have: that of an assassin. Her motives remain a mystery: while some whisper that it is vengeance that drives her, others say it is grief. But only those who meet her eyes see something far more dangerous than sorrow. In the shadowed alleys of Thalenor, Alisandre finds the adventure she craved, along with peril she never imagined and truths that were never meant for her to know.
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