The Bloodied Key

A silver streak in her hair has followed her since birth—a mark everyone believes is meaningless, until a mysterious book claims otherwise.

When an anonymous author writes of an ancient curse that mirrors her own life, Brielle sets out to uncover the truth. Accompanied by a wandering sorcerer and guided by the elusive author, she follows a trail of half-truths that leads far beyond the legend she thought she was chasing.

But every answer breeds a deeper mystery.

When the author reveals that his knowledge came from a witch—creatures believed to have vanished after the Winter War—her search for answers takes her beyond the boundaries of accepted history.

Bound by a dangerous bargain and haunted by a curse, she must decide whom to believe in a world where history has been rewritten, every ally guards a secret, and even the search for truth may have been orchestrated from the very beginning.

Because some stories are written to reveal the truth.

And some are written to decide what the truth will be.