First Chapter First Paragraph: Grave Mercy

When I first saw the cover of Grave Mercy, I knew it was a book for me.  I love a killer heroine (no pun intended) and historical fiction is right up my alley. 

I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb. That I survived, according to the herbwitch, is no miracle but a sign I have been sired by the god of death himself.

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