“Nhika is a bloodcarver. A cold-hearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just a touch. In the industrial city of Theumas, she is seen not as a healer, but a monster that kills for pleasure.
When Nhika is caught using her bloodcarving abilities during a sham medical appointment, she's captured by underground thugs and sold to an aristocratic family to heal the last witness of their father’s murder.
But as Nhika delves deeper into their investigation amidst the glitz of Theumas’ wealthiest district, she begins to notice parallels between this job and her own dark past. And when she meets an alluring yet entitled physician's aide, Ven Kochin, she’s forced to question the true intent behind this murder. In a society that outcasts her, Kochin seems drawn to her...though he takes every chance he gets to push her out of his opulent world.
When Nhika discovers that Kochin is not who he claims to be, and that there is an evil dwelling in Theumas that runs much deeper than the murder of one man, she must decide where her heart, and her allegiance, truly lie. And -- if she's willing to become the dreaded bloodcarver Theumas fears -- to save herself and the ones she's vowed to protect.” - taken from Goodreads.
Nhika is known as a bloodcarver but she prefers the term heartsooth. Basically she is able to alter human anatomy through touch. Purchased by a wealthy family to heal the last living witness to the murder of their patriarch, she soon discovers that she is in more trouble than she ever thought. Finding help from the one person Nhika never suspected or trusted, can she help solve a murder before she becomes the next victim? Readers will be eagerly anticipating the final book after that jaw dropping ending.
Book two, His Mortal Demise, is out March 18. 2024.
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