Each province is allowed to send one girl to vie for this honor. “This year the Heir will choose his first Graces. Her mother had taught her the importance of masks. As Serina waited for his decree, her heart clamored in her throat, but she hid her excitement beneath a veneer of serenity. Signor Pietro turned away from the girls on the steps of the fountain to address the people gathered in the piazza. Serina couldn’t read his expression, but she was sure it didn’t echo their parents’ open anticipation. Their brother, Renzo, kept a hand on Nomi’s arm, as if to hold her back. Serina could see plainly, even from this distance, the fury in her sister’s eyes. Only Nomi’s flushed cheeks caught the light. Serina’s family stood in shadow at the edge of the crowd. The dark hulk of the mountains loomed over the soot-stained city, blocking all but a few final rays of daylight. His salt-and-pepper mustache twitched as he pursed his lips. He had known all of them from birth, watching and gauging and critiquing their potential. Signor Pietro gave each girl his narrow-eyed appraisal. Her brilliant smile never dimmed, even as the thick, coal-hazed twilight tried to choke her. SERINA TESSARO STOOD on the steps of the fountain in Lanos’s central piazza flanked by nine other girls her age, all in their finest gowns. Thrilling and captivating, Grace and Fury is a story of fierce sisterhood, and survival in a world that's determined to break you.
There is no room for weakness on Mount Ruin, especially weaknesses of the heart. Imprisoned on an island where she must fight to the death to survive, surrounded by women stronger than she is, one wrong move could cost her everything. Meanwhile, Serina is running out of time. But this is easier said than done…a traitor walks the halls of the palazzo, and deception lurks in every corner. Trapped in a life she never wanted, Nomi has only one option: surrender to her role as a Grace until she can use her position to save Serina. But when Nomi catches the Heir's eye instead, Serina is the one who takes the fall for the dangerous secret her sister has been hiding. It's her chance to secure a better life for her family, and to keep her headstrong and rebellious younger sister, Nomi, out of trouble. Serina Tessaro has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace-someone to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect woman.
Bold, brutal, and beautiful, this must-read fantasy is full of fierce sisterhood, action, and political intrigue for fans of The Selection series, Caraval, and The Handmaid's Tale.
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