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Gild by Raven Kennedy meets a female version of Dexter in this gritty dark romantasy. With gods-blessed magic, vigilante justice, sisterhood, and unexpected romance, Black and Blue Widow will have you rooting for rage, revenge, and somehow, love.

The Widow’s Stone story begins two years before the outbreak of World War I. Working for a mining company in German East Africa, a beautiful native woman named Penda unearths a large red diamond. She immediately recognizing its immense value and plots to steal the rare gem. That theft does not end well. Instead of riches, Penda finds only tragedy, and she is not alone. Countless are the lives, and vast are the fortunes lost in the crimsoned glare of the Widow’s Stone.

Smuggled ashore by the kind widow Merry D’Angelo, Maria begins her new life in the colonial port city of Fremantle. But no matter how settled she seems, Maria can't stop wondering about what happened to William McGregor.