num_pages: 400
description: A snarky seventeen-year-old must team up with an enigmatic criminal to cure herself of dangerous forbidden magic in the first book of a new fantasy duology from Morgan Rhodes the New York Times bestselling author of the Falling Kingdoms series.Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: its rare illegal and always deadly. So when shes caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queens Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magicone that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil warlockshe finds herself living her worst nightmare. Joss needs the magic removed before it corrupts her soul and kills her. But in Ironport the cost of doing magic is death and seeking help might mean scheduling her own execution. Theres nobody she can trust.Nobody that is except wanted criminal Jericho Nox who offers her a deal: his help extracting the magic in exchange for the magic itself. And though shes not thrilled to be working with a thief especially one as infuriating (and infuriatingly handsome) as Jericho Joss is desperate enough to accept. But Jericho is nothing like Joss expects. The closer she grows with Jericho and the more she sees of the world outside her pampered life in the city the more Joss begins to question the beliefs shes always taken for grantedbeliefs about right and wrong about power and magic and even about herself.In an empire built on lies the truth may be her greatest weapon.
language: English
title: Echoes and Empires
publisher: Razorbill