The Taker

In the stronghold city of Sanctuary, the price of peace is determined by the blade of justice and the staff of holy men.

Ameel is an outcast, an Unspeakable, marked in the eyes of others by the death of her parents. Little do they know that by night Ameel loyally races rooftops in a shroud of darkness, hunting down thieves, murderers, and other wrongdoers in the name of justice and in the protection of the very people who scorn her. She is a bladed shadow, One Who Does Evil Deeds, one of the Black Koda.

Adam is the only person who has ever tried to befriend Ameel and she is convinced she must keep herself and this secret from him. She firmly believes that what she is doing is right and that wrongdoers must be punished but doesn't want her stigma to ruin his chance at acceptance and happiness.

When her beliefs are challenged by Grahame, a besotted and handsome priest who doesn't know what she is but tries to convince her that even wrongdoers deserve mercy and salvation, Ameel begins to want more than a half life of solitude and piety by day and bloodshed and duty by night.

With the brutal murder of a young girl, those burgeoning desires die a quick death when Linogue Mark, the religious ruler of Sanctuary and shadow leader of the Black Koda, again commands Ameel to do her duty under the guise of justice.

She is called to do the unthinkable: Ameel must slay her only friend.

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