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Synopsis
Children of Sacrifice takes readers on a journey of forbidden love, emotional redemption, and new-found belonging as they follow Olun and Didan deep into Darkness where restless spirits await and long forgotten secrets find light. "What is the cost of life?" Olun will do anything to end the plague killing off her clan, including sacrificing herself to the Dark Lady of Death. This, she believes, is the answer to the question posed by the Elder of her clan and the purpose of her short life-until she's stolen away to the mountains where she is to become Elder of the Ithoumi village. But this new chance at life comes at a cost and Olun is determined to prove that they've made a mistake. There is absolutely nothing special about her. Yet, when dormant abilities awaken and her long-suffered nightmares become reality, Olun turns to the one person she fears more than fate . . . Didan, the former Elder of the Ithoumi village, now reduced to a muttering, disfigured pariah, sets his sights on Olun. With their pasts linked by pain and their present blossoming into something more frightening, Olun discovers a new answer to the question of Life and Death-one that will set both her and Didan on a path of no return.
Shadows of Memory: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
This dark fantasy contains plague-related death, sacrifice themes, body horror elements (disfigurement), and forbidden romantic content between characters with traumatic pasts. Mature themes of death worship and spiritual darkness throughout.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, moderate sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, grief, and plague/epidemic (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Adult readers will be drawn to the forbidden romance and dark magic as a young woman destined for sacrifice discovers her hidden powers.