Red Sister

Red Sister
Mark Lawrence

It's not until you're broken that you find your sharpest edge"I was born for killing – the gods made me to ruin"At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices’ skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist.But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don’t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder: guilty of worse.

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Source ISBN: 9780008152291

Ebook Edition © April 2017 ISBN: 9780008152314

Version: 2018-10-26

Dedication (#ulink_ae3b37c4-c269-5eb7-969d-131834464d4a)

To Celyn, who needs no words for eloquence.

Contents

Cover (#u3653f8e0-e295-5f15-8597-522aeaea233e)

Title Page (#u5fea1ab3-a5c1-5916-879b-f5a997bd49e9)

Copyright (#u4bedbed4-10b5-500b-8929-026537996f21)

Dedication (#u817baff9-5b62-56a1-a524-3fcc3250d6b1)

Author’s Note (#u1e2d266a-1acf-5118-a1d5-730a0c365e32)

Red Class (#ua070c133-3933-5383-8b6c-50a47c12b44a)

Prologue (#u976551d5-87c7-56b4-853a-3e2f22dfc297)

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Chapter 2 (#ud0712401-dd4c-54a0-8d97-1b7fe91520c2)

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Chapter 5 (#ue20f2eb1-31aa-5f0e-a7c0-0d9f1d680545)

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Chapter 7 (#u718d4038-0c72-58ca-bea7-aea1c86cb8cc)

Chapter 8 (#u45841767-bb9e-50f4-9ec1-10a6d2e3c1bf)

Chapter 9 (#u1457845c-8171-529e-a28b-14de17b1bc36)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

Grey Class (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)