THE THORNWAKE

The Rose Court rules the dying spiral arm of Veil. Its knights — the Thornsworn — carry blades grown from a single ancestral rose, each thorn keyed to a sanctioned kill. To draw the blade is to remember every life it has ever taken. To sheathe it again, you must add a new memory to the chain. Vesna Korr is the Court's most decorated Thornsworn. Her seventy-third contract is a man named Aedan Vey — a memory-thief living on the edge of the Wake, the dead zone where harvested minds go to drift. The trouble: when Vesna draws her blade for him, the rose recognizes him. They have a memory together. One she has never lived.

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Alex Vazquez

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8 pages

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