num_pages: 466
description: In this romantic new fantasy series from author Hannah Whitten a young woman's secret power to raise the dead plunges her into the dangerous and glamorous world of the Sainted King's royal court. When Lore was thirteen she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire. And in the ten years since shes lived by one rule: dont let them find you. Easier said than done when her death magic ties her to the city.Mortem the magic born from death is a high-priced and illicit commodity in Dellaire and Lores job running poisons keeps her in food shelter and relative security. But when a run goes wrong and Lores power is revealed shes taken by the Presque Mort a group of warrior-monks sanctioned to use Mortem working for the Sainted King. Lore fully expects a pyre but King August has a different plan. Entire villages on the outskirts of the country have been dying overnight seemingly at random. Lore can either use her magic to find out whats happening and who in the Kings court is responsible or die.Lore is thrust into the Sainted Kings glittering court where no one can be believed and even fewer can be trusted. Guarded by Gabriel a duke-turned-monk and continually running up against Bastian Augusts neer-do-well heir Lore tangles in politics religion and forbidden romance as she attempts to navigate a debauched and opulent society.But the life she left behind in the catacombs is catching up with her. And even as Lore makes her way through the Sainted court above they might be drawing closer than she thinks.
language: English
title: The Foxglove King
publisher: Orbit Books