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At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. Sweet Mercy hones its novices´ skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don´t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder.

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