To Cross a Blade and Dagger (To Cross a Blade and Dagger, #1)

Crime is her calling and night is her time. A 2018 Breakthrough Novel Awards Finalist Being a slave without a name or identity, it was easy to accept the looming embrace of an unremarkable death. But after a gang lord pulls her from nothing and gives her a name, Nyx finally has purpose.

As an eighteen-year-old hunter, death hound, and criminal prodigy, Nyx thrives in the infamous Bottoms. Now, she must find a way to survive when the fragile peace she has built for herself is threatened as she embarks on a journey to rescue a magic wielder. After getting cut in a dark plot she must fight for the ultimate prize.

To stay alive. Loran’s Blade is a living legend. Aidan is an eighteen-year-old boy known to a few.

When both are the same person, Aidan must find a way to juggle his identities. Coerced into a life of court, he finds that not everything is as simple as death on a battlefield, especially when he discovers secrets hidden down dark corridors in court. When the attention of the king lands him on a dishonorable mission, he must decide where his loyalties lie.

For to incur the wrath of the king could mean his death.