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The Executioner's Right


A Fantasy Novel


Book 1 of the The Executioner's Song Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Crime Fantasy,
  • Heist Fantasy,
  • Apprentice Hero,
  • Reluctant Hero
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Apprenticeships where the job is darker than expected
  • Fantasy worlds where executioners double as detectives
  • Heists colliding with moral dilemmas and impossible choices
Publisher Description

Executioners don't solve crimes, they punish those who commit them. Or so Finn thought before apprenticed to one.

Poverty-stricken Finn Jagger would give anything to heal his ailing mother. With his father imprisoned, Finn has joined a thieving crew to earn the money he needs to save her. When the latest heist turns to disaster and lands him on death row, Finn's future seems to be tied up with a noose.

Until the king's executioner claims him as an apprentice.

Finn soon learns an Executioner has far more power and greater responsibility than he'd ever realized. As inquisitor and detective, he must find the truth behind each sentence he carries out. It's a challenging job, but one that Finn is surprisingly good at.

When the crew decides Finn could be the key to completing an impossible heist that threatens the kingdom, he's forced to choose between his new job and his old friends.

And making the wrong choice could cost him everything.

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