The Price of Fear

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For a Godless like Azreal the Wretched, peace might be a more profitable time, but it's no less bloody... A decade into the armistice with Inath, the North, once united against invasion, finds itself a divided kingdom. Azreal - an infamous mage of the Northern military - operates in his native land as a contract killer, employed to hunt traitors by a king who is squabbling against his would-be usurpers. But when the completion of his latest bounty unveils a foreign plot to dethrone the North altogether, Azreal is the only one who can cross the border and respond in kind... Or he would have been, until betrayal at the final moment resulted in his killing of the wrong man and capture by those that he's spent half his life fighting. Now, imprisoned and awaiting his execution for the murder of an Inathian crown prince, Azreal finds himself across the interrogation table from Anamira Lestrade. A career criminal investigator, Ana is tasked with extracting the truth behind the assassination or dying in failure - ...