For one apprentice assassin the clock is ticking Pyrre Lakatur doesn't like the description skullsworn It doesn't capture the beauty of her devotion to Ananshael God of Death & she's not an assassin but a priestess Or she will be if she can pass her final trial The problem isn't killing as Pyrre has spent her life training for this The problem is love To pass the trial she will have fourteen days to kill seven people detailed in an ancient song including one true love who will not come again' However Pyrre has never been in love time is short & if she fails she'll be given to her god Pyrre's not afraid to die but she hates to fail So a month before the trial begins she returns to the violent city of her birth where she once offered an abusive father to the god Here Pyrre hopes to find love
- & end it with the edge of her knife