They killed her family while she watched. Six years later, she walked back in under a dead woman's name — carrying a plan none of them were meant to survive.
Five years ago, the four Councillors of the Ember Empire declared House Solen traitors and executed everyone Mira Solen loved while she watched from beneath a grain cart. She was sixteen. She is twenty-two now, trained, and standing in the Imperial Court under a name cut from a gravestone. Three of the four Councillors are within reach. The fourth has been dead for two years — not by Mira's hand, with a method that looks like her work. There are things about the night House Solen burned that the official account doesn't explain. Mira has been assuming that means the Councillors lied. She is beginning to consider there is a third explanation.
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