Shadow Runner

Description

Born to aristocracy, Ada will marry and never want for anything, except freedom. An unearthly visitor and a series of seemingly supernatural events unexpectedly deliver her from the mundane. But no one could have predicted the darkness that comes with it.

Taken in and raised by a secret society, Ada is groomed as an assassin. As she comes of age, she must become a predator, targeting members of the very nobility to which she was born . . . or try to escape. But if she leaves, she risks the lives of the two she loves most: her adopted sister . . . and her captor.

Part history and part fantasy, Shadow Runner is a Dickensian tale that asks the question, what happens to a good person when survival requires embracing darkness?