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From critically acclaimed, UK bestselling MK Lobb comes her adult debut, a noir romantic fantasy set in a world in which sin is a fatal disease, and the rich hire the poor to carry out their basest instincts, until the forbidden romance between a sinner and a mysterious figure threatens to destroy everything. Every crime manifests in a wasting illness that consumes sinners from the inside out and aristocrats exploit the lower classes to keep their own health intact, a practice Talin, sinner and right-hand woman of the holiest man in Valestadt, knows all too well. Between the Bloodrot ravaging her body and the assignment that throws her into the path of the shadowy leader of the underground, The Warden, Talin's time is running out. But she just might have enough time to take down the whole system with her.
Available for in-store pickup 8/25/26
From critically acclaimed, UK bestselling MK Lobb comes her adult debut, a noir romantic fantasy set in a world in which sin is a fatal disease, and the rich hire the poor to carry out their basest instincts, until the forbidden romance between a sinner and a mysterious figure threatens to destroy everything. Every crime manifests in a wasting illness that consumes sinners from the inside out and aristocrats exploit the lower classes to keep their own health intact, a practice Talin, sinner and right-hand woman of the holiest man in Valestadt, knows all too well. Between the Bloodrot ravaging her body and the assignment that throws her into the path of the shadowy leader of the underground, The Warden, Talin's time is running out. But she just might have enough time to take down the whole system with her.
Available for in-store pickup 8/25/26