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Elias Batesian's heart-mage, King Beau, struck a deal to resurrect him and grant him deadly powers.

When Jace leaves Hallsburg for a new country, he tries to leave his old self behind too. But Hallsburg’s soldiers and Swordsman cult have a long reach, and Jace will need all the skills of lying and violence he learned back home to protect his new friends and his brother. Maybe, if he can kill...

The spare becomes the heir and, on his path to the throne, discovers magical intrigue, a secret society pulling political strings, and not one, but two loves of his life.

Logan technically doesn’t exist. He is terrified of the Black Lapels and their Swordsman church, who imprisoned his parents for bearing an unlicensed, “unnatural” child. When he’s taken to a home for unwanted boys, he meets Jace—a master liar who isn’t afraid of anything.