The Mercy Makers

"A wondrous lucid dream...laced with a vivid sensuality." —Jacqueline Carey,  New York Times  bestselling author of  Kushiel's Dart  A talented heretic must decide between the pursuit of forbidden magic, or the ecstasy of forbidden love, in the start of a sweeping, romantic epic fantasy trilogy by  New York Times  bestselling author Tessa Gratton. Can an empire trip and fall on a mere strand of silk?  Iriset is a prodigy and an outlaw. The daughter of a powerful criminal, she dons her alter ego Silk to create magical disguises for those in her father’s organization, but she longs to do more with her talent: to enhance what it means to be human by giving people wings, night-sight, and other abilities; to unlock the possibilities of gender and parenthood; to cure disease and even to end mortality itself.   Everything changes when her father [...]is...