A Gift for the Sovereign

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A Gift for the Sovereign is the debut novel from Sophia Akiva, which delves into the cold, shadowy and macabre realm of dark fantasy. Maliciously bewitching and eerily fascinating, A Gift for the Sovereign follows the perilous and ambitious rise of Adelaide, a young woman tragically orphaned as a child by a party of vicious bandits, driven to a life of petty crime and pick-pocketing to survive. Along the way, being exposed to the vile mechanisms of a cutthroat society that shaped her perception of life and honed her instincts. Little did she know, the mysterious spectre she stumbled upon during her escape from punishment would set her on a path of greatness, albeit through dark misdeeds of her own. A reclusive swordsman takes her in as his own and readies her for the thrilling adventure that she always yearned for - unfortunately, this rise comes at a steep cost, and Adelaide is thrust on an odyssey that will bring out the most vicious side of her nature that she desperately tried to keep dormant.