Genderfluid Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and to get closer to the nobles who destroyed home. So when auditions to become a member of The Left Hand-the Queen's personal assassins-are announced, Sal jumps at the chance to infiltrate the court and get revenge. But a childhood as a common criminal hardly prepared Sal for the audition: a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries, and vicious ex-soldiers. But Sal succeeds in the competition, winning the heart of an intriguing scribe at court, and, together, they begin to dream of a new life and a different future-a future that they can have only if they both survive...
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Deryn Edwards studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She has performed on the operatic stage, as well as in West End musicals. In addition, Deryn sang with the international a cappella vocal group, The Swingle Singers, for seven years. With the group she collaborated with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, and performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Centre in New York City.