The Assassin: A Love Story

You have chosen a story that is gothic, romantic, and emotional, with a kneeling girl and songs and knives. If you step in, you will share a cottage with the man who killed your family…

book cover for The Assassin

You are cruel, she wrote.

You are stronger than cruelty, he replied.

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In the present, a woman languishes in a dungeon cell whose windows look out upon a cursed king’s dead lovers.

In the past, a little girl kneels beside a dying boy assassin and sings to him.

And somewhere in between, a young woman moves into the cottage of the man who killed her family…

Content warnings: Death of family, violence, prevented SA

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Sonya Lano

Sonya Lano

When I was twenty-two, I ran away to Prague, where I now sing to my black cat (who collects dustballs in her whiskers), eat chocolate for breakfast, and have lemon tarts every Thursday.

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