The Bloody and the Damned

The Bloody and the Damned

Author: Becca Coffindaffer Listening Length: 11h 41m

An assassin with outlawed, magical abilities will do anything to get their kidnapped sisters back in this dystopic-fantasy standalone, perfect for fans of Arcane and Iron Widow. Mercy has no place here. On Trinity, where the privileged live in the skies and the rest fight for water below, you do what you can to survive...

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“BY GIVING SO MUCH OF THEMSELVES TO THE FORMATION OF TRINITY, THE HERALDS PROVIDE FOR THEIR CHILDREN. THEY FEED US, THEY PROVIDE US WITH WATER AND ENERGY, AND WE MUST REMEMBER THAT AND KEEP IT WITH US IN EVERYTHING WE DO.”

—THE DIVINE ORIGINS OF TRINITY, THE ARCHIVAL COUNCIL OF THE HERALDIC MINISTRY

Sometimes, in the dark hours before dawn, when I’m dead asleep, I dream of water pouring down from the sky, running in rivulets over my skin, cooling everything it touches. As I reach out, letting the droplets hit my hand, the word comes to my mind: rain.

Water doesn’t come from the sky on Trinity. It never has. So I’m not sure why this rain feels so real, so possible, when I’m asleep. But sometimes I would give anything to stay there in that dream.