Shackle and Bone: Book One

The empire calls it order. The people call it survival.Aya has spent eighteen years learning one lesson: in Timbuktu, the poor exist only to serve the powerful. Beaten by the woman who should have loved her, forbidden to pursue her dream of becoming a warrior, and surrounded by a monarchy that treats commoners as disposable, she has learned to keep her head down—even while her heart burns for revo...