Shadow Reaper · #1
Shadow Reaper
NEVER BARGAIN WITH A REAPER.
The city of Aravell is in peril, plagued by a deadly blackmist that kills all it touches, and reapers who roam the streets, stealing magic from innocent children in their thirst for power. Seventeen-year-old Viridia Solace has trained for years to hunt these reapers but their ranks keep growing, led by the man who murdered her parents: the Reaper Priest.
When the Priest's most loyal follower, Reeve Ashton, is captured, he offers Viri a chance to avenge her parents . . . for a price. She knows better than to bargain with a reaper, let alone this reaper, but his offer is too good to resist.
Soon she's breaking him out of prison, colluding with his crew of magic thieves, and following him deep into the blackmist forest in search of an ancient legend, all so they can stop the Reaper Priest’s plot to doom the city. Viri is staking her life on Reeve's plan, but how can she trust a silver-tongued criminal to keep his word? And how can she trust her own heart when a buried secret could shatter everything?
Full of relentless twists, enemies-to-lovers romance, found family, and high stakes action, Shadow Reaper is the start of a breathtaking new duology from international bestselling author Lynette Noni.
The series
Magic has a price in Avarell, and some debts are paid in blood.
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Lynette Noni's Shadow Reaper series unfolds in a city where forbidden magic, ancient secrets and dangerous bargains lurk beneath the surface. At its centre is seventeen-year-old Viridia Solace, a reaper hunter whose carefully controlled life begins to unravel when vengeance draws her into an alliance she never intended to make. The enemy she is forced to trust may be the very person capable of destroying everything she has sworn to protect.
As Viridia is pulled deeper into Avarell's hidden conflicts, the boundaries between hunter and hunted, loyalty and betrayal, begin to blur. Her journey brings together deadly magic, political intrigue, found family and a slow-burning enemies-to-lovers romance, while each revelation raises new questions about who can be trusted and what the characters are willing to sacrifice.
The series combines dark young adult fantasy with fast-moving adventure and an atmosphere of constant uncertainty. Beneath its magical battles and dangerous missions is a more personal story about grief, vengeance, identity and the difficult choice between holding on to the past and forging a different future.
With its forbidden magic, morally complicated characters and escalating tension, Shadow Reaper continues Noni's fascination with placing young protagonists in worlds where survival is never as simple as defeating the obvious enemy. The result is a fantasy series built around secrets and shifting loyalties, where even an alliance made for survival can become something far more dangerous.
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