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    8 - Over three years after Caterina's death, Rook has more than she ever could have imagined for herself: a husband, a daughter, an extended family too. She also has a measure of power she's trying to use well on behalf of the Crows.

    And this power attracts the notice of a certain shadow that is rumoured to have killed a lot of Crows. (You might even say he's murdered a whole murder.)
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    After recovering from a stroke and learning that Lucanis has proposed to Rook, Caterina gives Lucanis one last contract. It's tradition for the First Talon, upon receiving this title, to be sent out to complete a contract with only a knife. However, with the world still falling apart, even Caterina has had to make some minor concessions.

    Fulfilling the contract becomes much more complicated than Lucanis and Rook ever could have imagined when they discover the target isn’t in Treviso. The target fled to their estate in the south—on the border of the Marches. Things being as they are, and with what lurks on the other side of the mountains, it really couldn’t have gotten much worse. Nevermind the people with grey masks who seem to be watching Rook, or that Spite keeps insisting something has infested her….

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