C. Yen Marsden

An artist's journey in a hopeless city.The city of Nov Salus is eating itself alive.Trapped behind its walls, people die stacked in the streets while the crown demands the army push west into lands where beasts and Terrors roam free. Only the mutated soldiers, those who trade limbs and senses for power, can hold the line.Kitalain Nostradame was proud to join them once. Losing her arm for the ability to fight the beasts meant prestige, a future for her immigrant parents, and proof she could be more than her birth. But three years later, her mutation has healed, her deployment nears, and her conviction is crumbling.When the Half-King orders all recruits to march toward the Great Beast, Kitalai...