Nhika is a bloodcarver. She has the power to alter human biology to heal or to harm with just a touch.

'Youll gasp, youll scream, youll cry, and youll be begging for the next book.'Chloe Gong,New York Timesbestselling author ofThese Violent Delights

In Theumas, Nhika is seen as a monster who kills for pleasure, and her gift is highly prized in the citys criminal underworld. When Nhika is finally captured, she is sold to the highest bidder an aristocratic girl dressed in white. But her mysterious buyer is not looking for an assassin. She needs Nhika to heal the only witness to her fathers murder.

Nhika vows to hunt down the killer and all signs point to Ven Kochin, an alluring yet entitled physicians aide. Despite Kochins relentless attempts to push her away, Nikha cant help feeling drawn into his opulent world. But she soon finds herself in a fight for her life and for the future of her own kind.