Nevernight by Jay Kristoff is the story of young Mia Corvere, daughter of an executed traitor, who finds herself an apprenticed-assassin, inducted into the infamous Red Church, where weapons, poisons, and combat are all in a days training while dark magic and deadly intrigue threaten as the war between the God of Light and Goddess of Night escalates with Mia at its center. Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge? Dramatic, gritty, and blood tinged, Nevernight by Jay Kristoff is the story of how far one young woman will go to achieve revenge. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic-the Red Church.

But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.ĭaughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life.

The first in a new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author.

Nevernight by jay kristoff