Shadow's Prey

Kanna awoke with no memory, but her body knows how to move. How to kill. She buries herself in the violent monotony of the blood-soaked Theatre, until her reputation becomes too great to contain. When the city's Governor arranges a gala with Kanna as the unwitting star of her own execution, she unleashes a force not seen in ages-not since the cataclysm that devastated Lifrasir and caused the death of its gods.

Hunted by an empire and haunted by old scars, Kanna finds herself on the run with a guileless Theatre fighter, a rebellious daughter of a politician, a secretive medic, and a trio of traitorous soldiers who once knew her.

Though Kanna is torn between who she is and what she is supposed to be, the survival of her misfit team, and of Lifrasir itself, hinges on a secret buried in her misplaced memories.

Kanna knows this:

To protect those who saved her, she will have to confront the dark inside of her-the feathered thing with teeth that will not be ignored.

k.d. edge, née linaket, is a hopepunk fantasy author. Their works are about identity and defiance--what we choose to define us, and what we laugh about along the way.